Stabilizing the Stables: Jerusalem’s First Mosque
Capitalizing Jerusalem - Mu'awiya's Urban Vision 638-680 - Beatrice St. Laurent
Beatrice St. Laurent [+]
Beatrice St. Laurent is a Harvard trained Art Historian and Professor of Art History.
Description
Chapter 4 locates Mu’āwiya’s mosque in what was considered Solomon’s Stables or the Old Mosque and today is the Marwani Musalla or prayer space. This mosque described by most scholars as the first mosque of Jerusalem is dated between 638-660 and the site of his accession as Commander of Believers. One major consequence of the very plain mosque’s survival is that it displaces the Dome of the Rock as the oldest surviving Islamic monument.