The Dome of the Rock is the most famous Islamic site in Jerusalem ... It also has the oldest surviving mihrab - the niche giving the direction of Mecca - in the world. The site is also where ...

It is located above a mihrab-prayer niche inside an active ... temple that once stood at the spot where today stands the Dome of the Rock shrine. Participants in the Jerusalem conference were ...

The iconic Dome of the Rock mosque has fascinated people for decades. In the magazine's September issue, National Geographic Photographer and Director of VII Academy Ziyah Gafic showcased an ...

that the Dome of the Rock was completed in 691 CE. The limestone block into which the Kufic script was carved stands above the mosque’s mihrab, the niche pointing toward Mecca, and reads ...