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Date
3-1980
Description
This 1980 photograph shows the Western Wall, al’Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. The Western Wall is also known as the Wailing Wall because of the intense emotions stirred by its history. All these sites are enclosed by the Noble Sanctuary, and are important sites in both the Judaic and Islamic traditions.
Creator 1 Role
Photographer
Subject Headings
Western Wall (Jerusalem); Architecture -- Religious architecture -- Israel -- Jerusalem; Architecture, Islamic; Mosques -- Israel -- Jerusalem;
Country Name
Israel
City Name
Jerusalem
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chet, "Jerusalem: Western Wall, al’Aqsa Mosque, and the Dome of the Rock" (1980). Browse All. 712.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/712
Keywords
historic, religious architecture, pilgrims, tourism, mosque
Notes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Wall (accessed 28 Oct 2011)
http://www.noblesanctuary.com/ (accessed 28 Oct 2011)
Kuhnel, Ernst. Islamic Art & Architecture. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966) pp. 35, 88