Jerusalem · a Light

Al-Aqsa is the whole enclosure, not only the silver dome

In Muslim usage al-Masjid al-Aqsa names the entire walled enclosure in Jerusalem, about fourteen and a half hectares, which includes the Dome of the Rock, the silver domed congregational hall at the southern end, courtyards, fountains, cisterns and colonnades. The Qur'an calls it the farthest mosque in the verse about the Prophet ﷺ being taken by night. The congregational hall has been destroyed and rebuilt repeatedly, mainly by earthquakes: the shocks of 748 and 1033 each brought much of it down, and its present columns and arcades are largely eleventh century work with Fatimid, Crusader, Ayyubid and modern repairs on top. The wooden pulpit installed by Salah ad-Din's order was burned in an arson attack in 1969 and replaced in 2007.

Al-Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalem

Source · Qur'an 17:1