Al-Buraq Mosque

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The al-Buraq Mosque (

It is believed that Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi closed the old Hittah gate (which Known as Barclay's Gate since the 19th century) and established the al-Magharibah Gate in its place.[10]

Temple Mount traditionalists identify Barclay's Gate with the Kiponus Gate, mentioned as the western gate of the outer court in the Mishnah (Middot 3:1). They also suppose that the Kiponus Gate was named after Coponius (AD 6–9), a Roman procurator, thus one of the four gates described by Josephus.^[11]

Architecture

According to Barclay's and his followers' archeological researches, the gate measures 5.06 metres in width and 8.80 metres in height of the doorway,

The oldest mention of it was made by the historian Ibn al-Faqih (903 CE), where he mentioned that it is located in the corner of the Qibla lighthouse.[12] The Qibla lighthouse is located in the southwestern corner and has been replaced by the current minaret, Al-Fakhriyyah minaret dating back to the Mamluk era.^[13]

The current Al-Buraq Musalla

At the end of the western corridor there is a gate that leads through steps to a rectangular underground room. On its southern side there is a small mihrab, and to its right there is a metal ring symbolizing the event when Muhammad tied the Buraq before entering the mosque on the Night of the Night Journey.^[14]

In the west of the room, the upper part of a huge stone-blocked gate can be seen. Some believe that Muhammad entered through it, and then tied Al-Buraq next to the door, as it was previously a corridor for Al-Buraq Gate, then the place turned into Al-Buraq Musalla.^[15]

History of the current metal ring

According to the traveler Abu Salem Al-Ayashi (1662 CE). It was a perforated stone on the outside of some of the western doors of Al-Aqsa Mosque. The stone is in a wall that people visit and seek blessings from, and they say that it is the one with which Prophet Muhammad tied Al-Buraq on the night of the Isra’.^[16]

After 120 years, Al-Meknasy described the ring and said that the current ring (1785 CE) is not the place where Al-Buraq was tied, but it is a sign of the place, after the original place was backfilled by the soil.^[17]

Gallery

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  The Buraq Mosque located (circled in orange) beside the Western Wall (also known as Buraq Wall)
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  Al-Buraq Mosque, c. 1940, view towards south-west
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  Vaulted space inside the subterranean chamber of

  Barclay's Gate

  , view towards east, c. 1940
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  Vaulted space view towards the west, c. 1940

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Al-Aqsa Mosque Al-Haram Ash-Sharif" (Document). Jerusalem: PASSIA: Palestine Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs. 2013.^{[page needed]}
2. ^ Sahih Muslim
3. ^ Al-Jallad, I. (2017). معالم المسجد الأقصى تحت المجهر [Al-Aqsa Mosque landmarks under the microscope]. Baytul Maqdis Center for Literature.
4. ^ حُسْنُ الاِسْتِقْصَا لِمَا صَحّ وَثَبَتَ فِي المَسْجِدِ الأَقْصَى (ص 53 – 54)
5. ^ "باب حطة القديم" [Al Qods Islamic Waqf Administration and Al-Aqsa Mosque Affairs]. ادارة اوقاف القدس وشؤون المسجد الأقصى المبارك (in Arabic). 2020-04-23. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
6. ^ ^{a b c d} Al-Ratrout, H.F. (2004). "The architectural development of al-Aqsa Mosque in Islamic Jerusalem in the early Islamic period: sacred architecture in the shape of the "Holy"". Monograph on Islamic Jerusalem Studies. Dundee: Al-Maktoum Institute Academic Press: 349.
7. ^
   doi:10.48730/h1k1-q778
   . The gate passage was in use until some time after 985 AD [...] when it was then blocked and changed into a cistern adjacent to the mosque known as al-Burāq [Burgoyne, 1992,p109].
8. ^ Al-Jallad, I. (2017). معالم المسجد الأقصى تحت المجهر [Al-Aqsa Mosque landmarks under the microscope]. Baytul Maqdis Center for Literature.
9. ^ مختصر كتاب البلدان, p.151
10. ^ باب حطة القديم. (n.d.). ادارة اوقاف القدس وشؤون المسجد الأقصى المبارك. Retrieved April 23, 2023, from https://www.awqafalquds.org/ar/aqsa-landmark/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%AD%D8%B7%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85
11. ^ Robertson, Norma (2013). "Locating Solomon's Temple" (PDF). Retrieved 23 April 2020.
12. ^ مختصر كتاب البلدان, p.151
13. ^ Al-Jallad, I. (2017). معالم المسجد الأقصى تحت المجهر [Al-Aqsa Mosque landmarks under the microscope]. Baytul Maqdis Center for Literature.
14. ^ Al-Jallad, I. (2017). معالم المسجد الأقصى تحت المجهر [Al-Aqsa Mosque landmarks under the microscope]. Baytul Maqdis Center for Literature.
15. ^ Al-Jallad, I. (2017). معالم المسجد الأقصى تحت المجهر [Al-Aqsa Mosque landmarks under the microscope]. Baytul Maqdis Center for Literature.
16. ^ Al-Ayyashi, A. (n.d.). الرحلة العياشية (Vol. 2).
17. ^ Al-Jallad, I. (2017). معالم المسجد الأقصى تحت المجهر [Al-Aqsa Mosque landmarks under the microscope]. Baytul Maqdis Center for Literature.

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