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Iran, Islamic Republic Of
June 28, 2016
Al-Aqsa Mosque, “the Farthest Mosque", also known as Al-Aqsa and Bayt al-Muqaddas, is the third holiest site in Islam. Whilst the entire site on which the silver-domed mosque sits, along with the Dome of the Rock, seventeen gates, and four minarets, was itself historically known as the Al-Aqsa Mosque, today a narrower definition prevails, and the wider compound is usually referred to asal-Haram ash-Sharif ("the Noble Sanctuary").
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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