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2 unusual facts about Al-Aqsa Mosque


Anwar Nusseibeh

Buried at the gates of the Noble Sanctuary within the confines of Haram as-Sharif Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Mut‘im ibn ‘Adi

We strike the flanks of the she-camels for one month to reach the Hallowed House, then for another month to come back, and you claim that you went there in one night!


Fountain of Qasim Pasha

The fountain was built by Qasim Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Jerusalem in 1527 during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, making the first public structure to be built on the Haram al-Sharif/ Al-Aqsa Mosque by the Ottomans.


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