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Dome of the Rock

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Dome of the Rock
n
(Placenames / Named Buildings) the mosque in Jerusalem, Israel, built in 691 ad by caliph `Abd al-Malik: the third most holy place of Islam; stands on the Temple Mount alongside the al-Aqsa mosque Also called (not in Muslim usage) Mosque of Omar


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Stylistically, the white marble mausoleum is derived from the Muslim tradition of creating octagonal memorial structures that Koch traces back to the seventh-century Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
In the meantime, Ariel Sharon took a thousand of his security people and marched up to the third holiest site in Islam, the Dome of the Rock, and proclaimed it Jewish property forever.
This ultimate triumph of Sharonism comes during a period of unprecedented turmoil Sharon himself first stirred up by his defiant stroll to the Dome of the Rock in 2000.
 
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