Tuesday 5 July 2011

Masjid Al Aqsa : Jerusalem

Al-Aqsa Mosque (the Farthest Mosque) also known as Al-Aqsa, is the third holiest site in Islam and is located in the Old City of Jerusalem. The site which includes the mosque (along with the Dome of the Rock), also referred to as al-Haram ash-Sharif or "Noble Sanctuary," is the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, the place where the Temple is generally accepted to have stood.
Islamic tradition holds that Muhammad led prayers towards this site until the seventeenth month after the emigration, when God directed him to turn towards the Ka'aba.

For more information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Mosque

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