The Al-Aqsa Mosque is the main congregational prayer hall in the compound in Jerusalem known to Muslims as Al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount. The Umayyad caliph al-Walid I is credited with building it in the early eighth century, continuing the work of his father Abd al-Malik, who built the nearby Dome of the Rock. The building has been damaged by earthquakes and rebuilt several times, and during the Crusader period it served as a royal palace and as a base for the Knights Templar before Saladin restored it as a mosque in 1187. It is considered the third-holiest site in Islam, and its status is a central and sensitive issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Before and after
- 7th centuryOrigins of chaturanga
- 701 CETaihō Code
- 19 May 701 CEBirth of Li Bai
- 706 CEConstruction of Umayyad Mosque
- 710 CEConstruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque
- from 710 CE to 794 CENara period
- c. 710 CEEruption of Witori
- from 711 CE to 1492Al-Andalus
- from 711 CE to 726 CEUmayyad conquest of Hispania
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The era
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