Photographer/Creator

Chet Smolski, Rhode Island College

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Date

3-1980

Description

The exterior of the Dome of the Rock, adorned with both marble and mosaic, was covered during the Ottoman Empire in, “magnificent Turkish tiles” (Ettinghausen, 16). In this photograph, which shows the Temple Mount, on which the building is located, you can see the restored marble columns that frame one of the four entrances to the dome.

Notes

Ettinghausen, Richard, Grabar, Oleg and Jenkins-Madina, Marilyn. Islamic Art and Architecture 650-1250. (New Haven: yale University Press, 2001) pp. 16-19

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Subject Headings

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

Country Name

Israel

City Name

Jerusalem

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Keywords

dome of the rock, islamic architecture, religious architecture, historic

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