Attempts to Judaize and control the prayer hall
The danger to the Al-Buraq prayer hall increased in recent time, some of its stones have cracks, due to severe humidity, and his condition is worsening due to the ban imposed on him the occupying entity for the maintenance and restoration of the prayer hall, the reason for the presence of the prayer hall nearby from the south, which is fully controlled by the entity, it prevents and obstructs access prayers to the prayer hall.
In 2007, the demolition of the Magariba door road began and the plans revealed Zionism prepared for the prayer hall, they opened the other door (leads out mosque) in order to convert it into a synagogue.
Also endangered because of the Zionist excavations scattered in this area and prepare the prayer hall is very close to it.
An Overview of the Landmark
It is a small prayer hall, built in the Umayyad period and has its present form from the Mamluk period (707-737 AH / 1307-1336 AD) connected to old Al-Aqsa Mosque
and the Marwani prayer hall and the Bab Al Rahma, it descends to 38 stairs, its entrance is in the western yard of Al-Aqsa Mosque to the left of the inside of the Bab Al Magearba, opened at the morning of Friday and some occasions, there is a door outside the wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque at Al-Buraq square, closed at a later time and opened its entrance within Al-Aqsa Mosque, the occupying entity uses this section today to Judaize, the worshiper and turned it into a synagogue, they opened the door leading out of the mosque and prevents any work of maintenance and restoration of the prayer hall, it is one of the closest landmarks on excavations located in the south-west of the mosque, affected by a lot, and appeared some of the cracks on his stones caused by it is weakness and increased humidity also.