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    Al-Aqsa Mosque is a mosque located in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is considered the third holiest site in Islam. The covered mosque building was originally a small prayer house erected by Umar, the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate, but was rebuilt and expanded by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik and finished by his son al-Walid in 705 AD. The mosque was completely destroyed by an earthquake in 746 AD and rebuilt by the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur in 754 AD. It was rebuilt again in 780 AD. Another earthquake destroyed most of al-Aqsa in 1033 AD, but two years later the Fatimid caliph Ali az-Zahir built another mosque whose outline is preserved in the current structure. The mosque was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981 as part of Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls.
    The site is one of the elements that make up the UNESCO World Heritage site, Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls.
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    Al-Aqsa Mosque


    World Heritage Site

    Date of Inscription

    1981

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    7th Century AD


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    Islamic

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    Islamic Monuments


     

     

     

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