- al-Aqsa
- the mosque that was the Muslims' first qibla, before Mecca
- the third sanctuary
- the third of the mosques journeys are made to, in Islamic teaching
- the first qibla
- the direction the Prophet first prayed toward while in Medina
- the night journey
- the night journey of the Isra, which ended at its mosque
- the Umayyads
- the dynasty that began its building in its early reign
- the Abbasids
- the dynasty that rebuilt it after the repeated earthquakes that razed it
- the Fatimids
- the dynasty that restored and renewed it in its era
- 1099
- the year Jerusalem fell into the hands of the Crusaders
- 1187
- the year of its recovery from the Crusaders with Saladin
- the earthquakes
- the natural disasters that razed it and saw it rebuilt, time and again
- the Noble Sanctuary
- the wide sanctuary that the mosque and the dome stand in together
- Saladin
- he who returned al-Aqsa to the Muslims after freeing Jerusalem
