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Dome Of The Rock

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Being the epicentre of religious wars and political rifts, Jerusalem remains to have the most interesting and magnificent religious structure through out the whole world. One of the most beautiful structure is the Dome of the Rock, which lies on top of mount Moriah . The dome is the oldest standing monument of Islamic architecture . The dome of the rock is a pilgrimage structure. It is not a mosque and never intended to function as such. The Dome is an octagonal structure on an elevated platform in the middle of temple mount . It was built in 692 CE but there are some scholars argue that they started building it during that year. Revered by the Jewish, Christian and importantly the Muslim. The Muslim believe that it stands as a symbol of …show more content…

The arguments could be further strengthened by the fact that, without a doubt, the architecture f the Dome of the rock follows in the tradition of the great Christian martyria and closely related to the architecture in Jerusalem, one of which commemorates the ascension of Christ.
The Dome of the Dome of the rock is a ciborium or “reliquary” above a sacred place, on a model which was fairly common among Christian martyria throughout the Christian empire, and which was strikingly represented by the great churches of Jerusalem itself. In other words, the architecture of the dome confirms they symbolic quality of place of commemoration of the dome of the rock, but it does not provide us with any more specific clue with respect to its meaning at the time of Abd al-M alik.
Another unique feature about the building is the epigraphy around it. “Indeed, the religion in the sight of Allah is Islam. And those who were given the Scripture did not differ except after knowledge had come to them - out of jealous animosity between themselves. And whoever disbelieves in the verses of Allah, then indeed, Allah is swift in [taking] account.” The epigraphy was used to tell Al-Malik’s follower that Islam is out there. Also, Abd Al-Malik put his name on the structure but Al-Ma’Mum change Al-Maliks to his name in 812-833 CE when it was

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