The Dome of the Rock is an Islamic shrine on the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif, in the Old City of Jerusalem. It was built in the 690s by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik and completed in 691 or 692. The shrine is an octagonal building covered by a golden dome and surrounds a rock sacred to Muslims, who associate it with the Prophet Muhammad's night journey, and to Jews, who identify the site as the place of the Temple. It is not a mosque but a commemorative shrine, and is among the oldest surviving Islamic monuments. Its exterior is covered by tiles from the Ottoman period, and the interior is decorated with mosaics and inscriptions from the Quran.
Before and after
- from 681 CE to 1018First Bulgarian Empire
- c. 683 CESrivijaya emerges as a maritime empire in Sumatra
- c. 683 CEEruption of Rabaul
- 6 August 686 CEBattle of Khazir
- 691 CEConstruction of Dome of the Rock
- October 691 CEBattle of Maskin
- from 697 CE to 1797Republic of Venice
- 7th centuryOrigins of chaturanga
- 701 CETaihō Code
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The era
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