Long an image of the area the Dome of the Rock was depicted on stamps of Palestine under British mandate.
Located on Temple Mount, this Islamic Shrine is located in a city that is holy to Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
Muslims believe that the rock in the center of the temple bears a footprint of Muhammad and was the start of his Night Journey which he took around 621CE.
The octagonal building was completed in 691, with the present dome added in 1023. The exterior tile work was added by the Ottomans in the 16th century.
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