Octagonal Shrine Under a Golden Dome The Dome of the Rock is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture and the earliest archaeologically attested religious structure built by a Muslim ruler, and it carries the earliest surviving inscriptions proclaiming Islam and the prophet Muhammad.
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Building Type Completed Year Completed Year Classification
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Building Type (category) Connections
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
An Islamic architecture landmark.
Uses Element
Source Wikipedia: Dome of the Rock
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Palestine, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Dome of the Rock
WikipediaLead paragraph, opening sentence describing it as an octagonal Islamic shrine
is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Second paragraph, sentence giving the Umayyad construction date
Its initial construction was undertaken by the Umayyad Caliphate on the orders of Abd al-Malik during the Second Fitna in 691-692 CE
Lead paragraph, opening sentence naming the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem
is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
The Dome of the Rock is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture and the earliest archaeologically attested religious structure built by a Muslim ruler, and it carries the earliest surviving inscriptions proclaiming Islam and the prophet Muhammad.
Uses Element: Timber, Wikipedia article
=== Umayyads === ==== Original construction ==== The initial octagonal structure of the Dome of the Rock and its round wooden dome had basically the same shape as it does today.
View the Source 2. Wikidata: Dome of the Rock
- Wikidata Q172077, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q172077, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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