In spring 2018, I got a special tour inside the Dome of the Rock. Here are my thoughts as I wandered around this sacred building. DOGE begins to freeze health-care payments for extra review Actors ...

Sheikh Omar Kiswani, the director of the Al Aqsa complex, marries a couple (wearing white) in a ceremony inside the Dome of the Rock. “Any church or synagogue in the Holy Land is a place of peac ...

Since there are no staircases inside, Gafic needed to scale the top of the Dome from the outside to capture photographs looking down at the "Rock." "This is as close as I get to heaven," Gafic ...

Vessel with Floral Motif and Crown, interior of the Dome of the Rock, 691 AD None of this is to mention the writing, done also in mosaic across the exterior and interior of the dome. Around the ...

Built in 691 CE, The Dome of the Rock is one of the oldest works of Islamic architecture. Recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this legendary place is considered to be one of Jerusalem’s ...

The icon of Jerusalem is the Dome of the Rock that stands on the Temple Mount, exactly where once was the Holy of Holies that housed the Ark of the Covenant in King Solomon’s Temple. There was a ...