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Slide Title

Jerusalem: al’Aqsa Mosque

Photographer/Creator

Chet Smolski, Rhode Island College

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Slide Date

3-1980

Date

May 2013

Description

Al’Aqsa, which translates to ‘the furthest’, is one of the oldest mosques on earth. It is located next to the Dome of the Rock, and was first completed in 702. It was rebuilt completely in 780, and alterations have continued over the last millennium, including, “the outstandingly stately minbar,” (Kuhnel 88) commissioned by Saladin in 1187. This photograph shows the mosque peaking over the southern wall of the Noble Sanctuary.

Notes

http://www.noblesanctuary.com/ (accessed 28 Oct 2011)

Kuhnel, Ernst. Islamic Art & Architecture. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966) pp. 35, 88

Document Type

Image

Box Number

3

Slide Number

121

Box/Slide Number

3/121

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Subject Headings

Architecture -- Religious architecture -- Israel -- Jerusalem; Architecture, Islamic; Mosques -- Israel -- Jerusalem;

Country Name

Israel

City Name

Jerusalem

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