| rdfs:comment | - In Left Behind: The Movie, the Temple was planned to be built right next to the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount, according to the plans that Chaim Rosenzweig had revealed to Buck Williams prior to their meeting with Nicolae Carpathia at the United Nations building.
- For more information, see Dome of the Rock.
- The Dome of the Rock is a sacred monument in the center of Jerusalem, and is used in Age of Empires II. It is seen in the Barbarossa and Saladin campaigns. Most of the times it is seen, it is the focal point of an objective.
- The Dome of the Rock is located at the center of a platform known as the Temple Mount, which Muslims refer to as the "Noble Sanctuary". It was constructed over the site of the Second Jewish Temple which was destroyed during the Roman Siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE. In 637 CE, Jerusalem was conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate army during the Islamic invasion of the Byzantine Empire.
- After Muslim armies conqured Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire, Muslim leaders decided to build a mosque on the site where Herod's Temple stood hundreds of years earlier, the most sacred site in Judaism. It was a tradition to build mosques on what had been other religions' holy sites. Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount in particular, were, and are still, also considered holy by Muslims. Both Jews and Muslims consider Abraham to be a prophet and he is believed to be the ancestor of both Jews and Arabs. According to tradition, the Temple Mount is where Abraham was about to sacrifice his son Isaac. The phrophet Muhammed is also said to have ascendeed to heaven from the mount, so the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque were built on it. Opposition by Jews to the building of the mosque on the Te
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| abstract | - In Left Behind: The Movie, the Temple was planned to be built right next to the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount, according to the plans that Chaim Rosenzweig had revealed to Buck Williams prior to their meeting with Nicolae Carpathia at the United Nations building.
- After Muslim armies conqured Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire, Muslim leaders decided to build a mosque on the site where Herod's Temple stood hundreds of years earlier, the most sacred site in Judaism. It was a tradition to build mosques on what had been other religions' holy sites. Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount in particular, were, and are still, also considered holy by Muslims. Both Jews and Muslims consider Abraham to be a prophet and he is believed to be the ancestor of both Jews and Arabs. According to tradition, the Temple Mount is where Abraham was about to sacrifice his son Isaac. The phrophet Muhammed is also said to have ascendeed to heaven from the mount, so the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque were built on it. Opposition by Jews to the building of the mosque on the Temple Mount was very small because Jews had been exiled from Jerusalem centuries earlier. A few Jews were allowed to return to Jerusalem and worship on the Temple Mount but they were later banned by radical Muslims. When Christian crusaders captured Jerusalem from the Muslims, the Dome of the Rock became a church and the AL-Aqsa Mosque became a royal stable. When Muslims conquered Jerusalem for a second time, the Dome of the Rock became a Muslim shrine once again. The Golden Gate that was located on the Temple Mount was quickly sealed by Muslims, as it was believed that the Messiah would enter the gate and rebuild the Temple. An Islamic cemetery was built in front of the gate to prevent the Messiah from entering. In 1948 when Israel was reborn, Jews were not allowed entry into the Old City of Jerusalem where the Western Wall, the only remmanent of the Second Temple stood. In 1967, during the Six Day War, {sraeli forces attacked Old Jerusalem and retook the Old City, including the Western Wall and the Temple Mount. Although the Temple Mount was back in Jewish hands for the first time in two thousand years, the Temple was not rebuilt and the mount was soon returned to Muslim control. Today the area remains a focal point of tensions between Jews and Muslims. Many Jews expect that the Messiah will one day come and rebuild the Temple. Some Radical Muslims claim that the Jewish Temple's never existed in Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock has stood on the Temple Mount since the time of Adam and Eve, although this claim can be easily disproven.
- For more information, see Dome of the Rock.
- The Dome of the Rock is a sacred monument in the center of Jerusalem, and is used in Age of Empires II. It is seen in the Barbarossa and Saladin campaigns. Most of the times it is seen, it is the focal point of an objective.
- The Dome of the Rock is located at the center of a platform known as the Temple Mount, which Muslims refer to as the "Noble Sanctuary". It was constructed over the site of the Second Jewish Temple which was destroyed during the Roman Siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE. In 637 CE, Jerusalem was conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate army during the Islamic invasion of the Byzantine Empire. The Dome of the Rock was erected between 685 and 691 CE. The names of the two engineers in charge of the project are given as: Yazid Ibn Salam from Jerusalem and Raja Ibn Haywah from Baysan. Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan who initiated construction of the Dome, hoped that it would “house the Muslims from cold and heat” and intended the building to serve as a shrine for pilgrims and not as a mosque for public worship. Historians contend that the Caliph tried to create a structure which would compete with the existing buildings of other religions in the city. Prof. Shlomo Dov Goitein of the Hebrew University states that the Dome of the Rock was intended to compete with the many fine buildings of worship of other religions. The very form of a rotunda, given to the Qubbat as-Sakhra, although it was foreign to Islam, attempted to rival the many Christian domes of its time. A.C. Cresswell in his book Origin of the plan of the Dome of the Rock notes that those who built the shrine used the measurements of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The diameter of the dome of the shrine is 20m 20 cm and its height 20m 48 cm, while the diameter of the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is 20m 90 cm and its height 21m 5 cm. The structure is basically octagonal. It comprises a wooden dome, approximately 60 feet (20 m) in diameter, which is mounted on an elevated drum consisting of a circle of 16 piers and columns. Surrounding this circle is an octagonal arcade of 24 piers and columns. During his travels in Jerusalem, Mark Twain wrote that: ”Every where about the Mosque of Omar are portions of pillars, curiously wrought altars, and fragments of elegantly carved marble - precious remains of Solomon's Temple. These have been dug from all depths in the soil and rubbish of Mount Moriah, and the Moslems have always shown a disposition to preserve them with the utmost care.” The outer side walls are made of porcelain and mirror the octagonal design. They each measure approximately 60 feet (18 m) wide and 36 feet (11 m) high. Both the dome and the exterior walls contain many windows.
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