At the northern entrance to the prayer hall there is a small room that used for guarding, a larger room is located at the double door at the southern entrance of the prayer hall, also used for guarding, contains a niche at its entrance, and contains a deep well was full of water.
What is the original purpose of its construction?
As a passage for the Umayyad princes coming from the double door that overlooks Umayyad palaces south of Al-Aqsa Mosque to Al-Qibli mosque directly.
Threats and Attacks
In 1967, the Zionist war minister emptied the well present at the room near the double door at the southern entrance to the prayer hall, and used it to sneak into Aqsa Mosque, which was discovered several months later and later closed.
On the 10th of August, 1999, the Zionist entity closed the ventilation hole and solved the humidity issue in the wall of the old Aqsa Prayer hall.
The Prayer hall now
This prayer hall remains closed, except in cases of necessity, until 1998 when it was cleaned by the Islamic Heritage Committee and Al-Aqsa Foundation Islamic Endowments, the place was lit, ventilated and set up as a place of prayer, and covered the carpets brought from Turkey and opened for prayer in the same year.