Dome of the Chain (Jerusalem)
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Name (Hebrew)
כיפת השלשלת (ירושלים)
Name (Latin)
Dome of the Chain (Jerusalem)
Other forms of name
Dome of the Rock (Jerusalem, Israel)
Chain dome (Jerusalem, Israel)
Coordinates
35.23581667 35.23581667 31.77805556 31.77805556 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing place name
Temple Mount (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Sources of Information
- Nees, Lawrence. Perspectives on early Islamic art in Jerusalem, 2016
- Discovering the World of the Bible, 1996:p. 23 (Dome of the Chain. On the east side of the Dome of the Rock is a small eighth-century treasury that resembles the Dome of the Rock. Arabs have stored their silver in the dome of this small structure over the years. Crusaders used it as a church and named it after Saint James. Most of the 17 columns may be seen at once when viewed from any angle. It received its name from an iron chain suspended from its cupola)
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Wikipedia description:
Dome of the Chain (Arabic: قبة السلسلة, romanized: Qubbat al-Silsilah) is an Islamic free-standing domed building located adjacently east of the Dome of the Rock in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is one of many small buildings that can be found scattered around the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Its exact historical use and significance are under scholarly debate. Erected in 691–92 CE, the Dome of the Chain is one of the oldest surviving structures at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. It was built by the Umayyads, became a Christian chapel under the Crusaders, was restored as an Islamic prayer house by the Ayyubids, and has been renovated by the Mamluks, Ottomans and the Jordanian-based waqf.
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