Dome of the Rock
Dome of the Rock
Dome of the Rock is located on the campus of al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, specifically north of the mosque. He ordered built by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik during the period 688 - 692 m above rock Maraj. Remains to this day an architectural symbol of the city.
And some scientists say that churches built by the Knights Templar later influenced style of Islamic architecture and pattern of the Dome of the Rock, and clearly demonstrates it in Castel del Monte
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
Why name
Proportion to the Rock, which was one of the elements of an event Flowers. It was built by Abdul Malik bin Marwan in 72 AH to attract Muslims to this point sacred, as a result of transmission capital from Medina to Damishqoaqama Umayyads in the Levant, and is located amid rocky plateau range called Haram al-Sharif is located along the axis of the Whole tribal.
The rock is located in the center of this holy mosque is believed that this rock hanging between heaven and earth and this is a misconception. There bottom rock cave by Niche Old called Chapel prophets, surrounded rock fence of wood stained of renovations Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad in AH 725, and the surrounding area rock four pillars of stone envelope tiles marble including 12 columns of marble bearing 16 contracts are at the top cylindrical neck, the dome
Description of the mosque
Is to build a stone on the planning octagon along rib about 12.5 m and within outer octagon octagonal another indoor and each side three decades mounted column and eight shoulders and inside appraiser second circle of 12 Amoodwarbah shoulders and above the circle dome diameter 20.44 m high dome Current is 35.30 meters above soil level, according to the Convention (903). Raised on the neck of the cylinder opened 161 m window, which is made of wood covered from the inside covered from the inside layer of plaster and the outside layer of lead, and a four-door mosque perpendicular.
The domes are external and internal organization on the central structure. Foreign dome structure مشبوك under external cylinder. This frame is made of wooden bridges connected together to form a continuous circular chain. Over these bridges a network of wood placed outer cover layer.
Rock:
Is a piece of a huge rock located under the dome in the center of the mosque, length from north to south about 18 meters, width from east to west about fourteen meters, the highest point where elevated ground about one meter and a half, and around the railing of carved wood and painted, On this handrail chapel for women and has four doors, separating between him and the chapel men iron fence clamp
Cave:
And Tf under the rock, and down to the south side eleven degrees, and form close to the box and the length of each side about four and a half meters, and has a ceiling height of three meters, and in the ceiling gap widen one meter and at the door arch cabin marble two columns
Decoration:
Covered most of the halls and walls of the mosque from the inside with mosaics They appear respects:
Religious: to show the power and greatness of the Islamic state
Aesthetic: the expression of the ability of the Muslim artist in the decoration to form a
.functional unit in line in the configuration and united in the method
:Characterized by the following
Diversity in terms of decoration do not see a formula repeated in all the decorations.
Unit where all the decorative elements overlap to form a functional unit in line in the configuration and united in the method.
Mosaic Stones were the local industry has been implemented by the inhabitants of the country themselves.
Koranic inscriptions in the highest brackets the appraiser East polygon is the oldest books of the English line beautifully dubbed (line Galilee) relative to the Galilee.
A gilt bronze panels that cover some parts of the four-door or cornices hyphen between capitals of columns sweet and parts are unique in the world for its originality and beauty and decorative richness, and controlled by the sweet and grape clusters treated skillfully
renewed
renewed
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 التعليقات: