Dome of the Ascension

The Dome of the Assumption ( Arabic قبة المعراج, DMG Qubbat al-Miʿrāǧ ; also Ascension Cathedral ) is a free-standing qubba (dome), which reminds of the ascension ( miʿrādsch / miraj ) of the Islamic prophet Mohammed . It is located northwest of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem .

It is not clear when the original dome was built, but it is believed that it may be either a work dating back to the Umayyad and Abbasid is because 903 they Ibn al-Fakih and 985 of al-Muqaddasi of as a "Two smaller domes" is mentioned. The other is the Prophet's dome . However, today's dome of the Ascension was built in 1200 by the Ayyubid governor of Jerusalem, Izz ad-Din az-Zanjili.

"It was built with the traces of his [= the Prophet's] feet in the octagon in the year of Hejra 597 [...], from a time when the Franks laid claim to the footsteps of Christ in the Dome of the Rock."

Web links

Commons : Ascension Cathedral - collection of images, videos and audio files

References and footnotes

↑ Guy le Strange: Palestine under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from AD 650 to 1500 , 1890, pp. 154 f. ( Digitized version )
↑ Johann Nepomuk Sepp & Bernhard Sepp : The rock dome: A Justinian Sophienkirche and the other temples of Jerusalem . Munich: M. Kellerer 1882, p. 36 ( digitized version )

31.778217 35.234989Coordinates: 31 ° 46 ′ 41.6 ″ N , 35 ° 14 ′ 6 ″ E

[1] Guy le Strange: Palestine under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from AD 650 to 1500 , 1890, pp. 154 f. ( Digitized version )

[2] Johann Nepomuk Sepp & Bernhard Sepp : The rock dome: A Justinian Sophienkirche and the other temples of Jerusalem . Munich: M. Kellerer 1882, p. 36 ( digitized version )