Domes

Dome of Moses

It was named after Prophet Moses, peace and blessings be upon him.

Built
647 AH / 1249 CE

The Dome of Moses is located on Moses terrace, in the middle of the western squares of Al-Aqsa Mosque Al-Mubarak, between As-Silsila Gate west, and An-Nahwiyyah Dome east. It’s northeast of the Dome of the Rock. The good king Najm al din Ayoubbi had it built, in 647 AH - 1249 AD.

It is a large square room; six meters long and six meters wide. It has six windows, topped by a dome, and has a cantilever outside, and northern entrance, and the terrace surrounded by another mihrab of a high wall.

In the past, it was called the Dome of the Tree; after a huge palm tree that was next to it. Also, it was called the Wide Dome.

Today, it is used as a house for memorizing the Holy Quran, where it was the first house of the Holy Quran in Palestine, and still groups graduate from it after learning Tajweed types.