Dome of the Rock

The Dome of the Rock stands in the courtyard of the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Wikidata dates its construction to 691 CE, from a single source that needs a second. ³

Al-Maqdisi described it when he saw it around 375 AH. It is an octagonal building with four doors, each facing a flight of steps: the southern, Israfil, the Sur and the women's. Inside are three ambulatories circling on columns. Al-Maqdisi considers it finer than marble and without equal. Above its area is a dome covered in gilded brass, a hundred cubits high including its base. He says that when the sun rises on it, it shines and the whole area glitters, and that he has seen nothing like it in the East. ¹

In the Mamluk period Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari measured it door by door. The eastern door is doubled, with an arch between its two leaves set with a gilded stone; the northern is called the Gate of Paradise, and the western is like them. Both leaves are plated with carved yellow brass. He gave the dome, the ambulatories and the courtyard in cubits. ²