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[[File:Mosque.jpg|right|200px]]
[[File:Mosque.jpg|right|200px]]
The '''Dome of the Rock''' houses the rock upon which [[Mohammed]] is said to have ascended to heaven, coincidentally the same rock upon which [[Abraham]] offered up his son [[Isaac]] to God, to prove his faith. It is also on the site of the [[Second Temple]] of Jerusalem, or, the [[Temple Mount]]. The holiness of the site to the three Abrahamic faiths is intense, to say the least.
The '''Dome of the Rock''' houses the rock upon which [[Mohammed]] is said to have ascended to heaven, coincidentally the same rock upon which [[Abraham]] offered up his son [[Isaac]] to God, to prove his faith. It is also on the site of the [[Second Temple]] of Jerusalem, or, the platform known as the [[Temple Mount]]. The holiness of the site to the three Abrahamic faiths is intense, to say the least.
After the Second Temple was destroyed in the Roman years, leaving Jerusalem in [[Roman Empire|Roman]] and later [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] hands, the Temple Mount became an empty site, used alternately as empty space, or as a city dump. According to legend, when the first Muslim conquerors took [[Jerusalem]], they approached the Temple Mount. There, the conqueror Umar called the Christian [[Patriarch]] of the city before him to answer for the derelict state of the holy site. Insisting that such a site, sacred to all three religions, deserved respect, Umar insisted that the Patriarch himself begin cleaning the Mount.
After the Second Temple was destroyed in the Roman years, leaving Jerusalem in [[Roman Empire|Roman]] and later [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] hands, the Temple Mount became an empty site, used alternately as empty space, or as a city dump. According to legend, when the first Muslim conquerors took [[Jerusalem]], they approached the Temple Mount. There, the conqueror Umar called the Christian [[Patriarch]] of the city before him to answer for the derelict state of the holy site. Insisting that such a site, sacred to all three religions, deserved respect, Umar insisted that the Patriarch himself begin cleaning the Mount.