Dome of the Rock
Dome of the Rock located in a part of Old Jerusalem is a vital structure to three major monotheistic world religions. With Dome of the Rock’s religious and historical importance in location, it has been a site of past supernatural events and prophesied to be the site of future events. The design of the building itself is also an example of harmonious proportion. Dome of the Rock has had much activity since the beginning of time.
Dome of the Rock has many names for its key roles in religious histories. Muslims call it “Kubbat as-Sakhra, Crusaders named it “Templar Domini”, and the Hebrews know it as the “Temple Mount”. The actual rock, AKA the “Foundation Stone” that the dome surrounds is significant to the Jewish and Christian faiths as it is where the world was created as it earthen form, Abraham offered his son Isaac as a blood sacrifice, Adam the first man, was made by God’s creation and an old site of King Solomon’s temple. The Muslim’s prize the rock for being the site where the Prophet Mohammed would make his nightly ascension to heaven and receive the doctrine of the Koran from the Archangel Gabriel. According to Muslim prophecy the rock is also the place where an angel will sound the trumpet call of the Last Judgment at the end of the world.
The building is cardinally aligned and rises between the Kidron and Tyropoeon valleys with views of Mount Moriah and the Mount of Olives. The Dome is elevated on two trapezoidal shaped imbricated platforms. The smaller rectangular platform on which the Dome sits on is called the Haram Ash-Sharif or the Noble Sanctuary. The Noble Sanctuary rises from larger irregular shaped rectangular spread that opens to view upon approach. Dome of the Rock as a structure was built in the capacity of a shrine for Islamic pilgrimage. It was built from 687-691 CE in Jerusalem, Israel near Mount Moriah under the supervision of the Islamic caliph, Abd Al-Malik.
Dome of the Rock is an octagonal shaped building with a
Dome of the Rock has many names for its key roles in religious histories. Muslims call it “Kubbat as-Sakhra, Crusaders named it “Templar Domini”, and the Hebrews know it as the “Temple Mount”. The actual rock, AKA the “Foundation Stone” that the dome surrounds is significant to the Jewish and Christian faiths as it is where the world was created as it earthen form, Abraham offered his son Isaac as a blood sacrifice, Adam the first man, was made by God’s creation and an old site of King Solomon’s temple. The Muslim’s prize the rock for being the site where the Prophet Mohammed would make his nightly ascension to heaven and receive the doctrine of the Koran from the Archangel Gabriel. According to Muslim prophecy the rock is also the place where an angel will sound the trumpet call of the Last Judgment at the end of the world.
The building is cardinally aligned and rises between the Kidron and Tyropoeon valleys with views of Mount Moriah and the Mount of Olives. The Dome is elevated on two trapezoidal shaped imbricated platforms. The smaller rectangular platform on which the Dome sits on is called the Haram Ash-Sharif or the Noble Sanctuary. The Noble Sanctuary rises from larger irregular shaped rectangular spread that opens to view upon approach. Dome of the Rock as a structure was built in the capacity of a shrine for Islamic pilgrimage. It was built from 687-691 CE in Jerusalem, Israel near Mount Moriah under the supervision of the Islamic caliph, Abd Al-Malik.
Dome of the Rock is an octagonal shaped building with a