Al-Aqsa Mosque also
known as Al-Aqsa and Bayt al-Muqaddas, is the third holiest site in Islam and
is located in the Old City of Jerusalem. The site on which the silver domed
mosque sits, 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. Muslims believe that Muhammad was transported from the Sacred Mosque in
Mecca to al-Aqsa during the Night Journey. 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 Kaaba.
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