How do I get to it?
It can be reached by two ways: either through a stone staircase northeast of the mosque, or through its newly revealed large northern portals.
Prayer in the early Islamic period
Nothing was mentioned about the building since the Umayyad construction until before the Crusader occupation. Only Nasir Khusraw talked about the cradle room of Jesus in the Fatimid period in 1047 AD, without mentioning the rest of the building, indicating that the place remained closed to visitors.
The Prayer Hall during the Crusader occupation
The prayer hall was turned into a stable of horses during this period, when the Marwani prayer hall entered, you can see the places of the rings engraved on the columns, which were dug by the Crusaders until they connect Horses called it “Soliman’s Stables” This biblical designation is not correct and it has nothing to do with our Sulaiman (peace be upon him) Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi cleared it and cut its walls into separate rooms that were used some as stores for the mosque and another hostel for the Sufi and students studying in corner of circumcision.
The prayer hall in the Ottoman period
The site was ignored and fabricated stories about were spread and used to scare children.
Prayer in the Modern Age
The place remained unchanged until 1996 AD, when the Zionist entity built a staircase in front of it the closed triple door behind the leveling, the fear of grabbing it and turning it into a synagogue, so they working on its reconstruction as a prayer under the name (Marwani Prayer hall) in honor of Abdul Malik bin Marwan.
Restoration of the Marwani Prayer hall
(Al Aqsa Foundation for the Reconstruction of Holy Sites and the Islamic Heritage Committee in Beit Al-Maqdis)
On his rehabilitation and opening for prayer, and in November 1417 AH / 1996, one of the reasons for this restoration also, that some international newspapers revealed in 1995 a secret document to divide the Al Aqsa so that the underground for the Jews and above for the Muslims, was their goal is to control the Marwani prayer hall, which is the largest prayer hall in Al-Aqsa Mosque, work began in 1996 by removing tons of dirt from inside and was tiled and supplied and put a wooden niche in it, as Egypt donated its carpets, ended in a very short time estimated only two months! It made available to worshipers in the month of Ramadan the same year as a Prayer hall
(For the first time in history), and contributed to solving the problem of overcrowding in Ramadan.
It considered the largest urban project in Al-Aqsa Mosque for hundreds of years.
The Muslims succeeded in opening two giant gates from the gates of the Marwani Prayer hall the huge north in May 2000, the construction of a large staircase inside the Aqsa leads to these Gates in a short period of time, and caused the act of intense anger of the entity Zionist organization that was planning to control the place, and make them claim that this deliberate destruction of Jewish monuments in the Temple Mount.
Al Aqsa Intifada (Uprising)
The Intifada started in the 28th of September, 2000, when Ariel Sharon, the leader of the Zionist opposition at that time, stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the pretext of the need to prevent bringing maintenance equipment to the Marwani prayer hall! He tried to reach to the prayer hall, resulting in igniting the blessed Aqsa Intifada in all Palestinian territories the next day.