Transcript Dome of the Rock - Brevard College

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(The Superdome)
(The Rock)
Dome of the Rock ?
Dome of the Rock
Qubbat As-Sakhrah
History of the Rock
► The
rock which the dome surrounds is
considered one of the most holy placeless,
not only by Muslims, but Jews and
Christians as well.
► Called Haram al-Sharif (the Jewish Temple
Mount) it is an outcrop of rocks that
Muslims have identified as the place where
Muhammad ascended to the presence of
God described in chapter 17 of the Koran.
History Continued
► The
same Rock is associated with the
Creation of Adam and where the Patriarch
Abraham was commanded to slaughter his
beloved son Isaac.
► In 692 the Dome of the Rock was
commissioned for not only religious but also
political purposes. Chaliph Abd El-Malik
placed the monument on the the Noble
Sanctuary, in order to enshrine the sacred
rock.
Image taken in 1925 for a magazine
Bibliography
► http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/u
nesco/jerusalem/about_dome.html
► Stockstad, Art History, Revised Second
edition, 2005
► http://www.islamicarchitecture.org/ia/archi/
domeoftherock.html
► http://archnet.org/library/sites/onesite.tcl?site_id=41