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Jerusalem
The capital of Israel, Jerusalem is situated in the Judean Mountains between the northern edge of the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It is a holy city to the three major religions –Christianity, Islam and Judaism. The city has a population of 780,200 as of 2009.
1,227 Questions
When was the fall of Jerusalem?
From whom to whom?
Jerusalem has been besieged 26 times and razed to the ground on 13 separate occasions. You may need to be a little bit more specific.
The main holy places for Muslims are respectively: Mecca, Al-Madina or Yathrib ( both of them are in Saudi Arabia ), Jerusalem or Al-Quds as it's called in Arabic.
other places may gain a limited holiness for particular reasons. i.e. Egypt is the only country (not city) that is mentioned in the Holy Qur'an.
- Makkah (Mecca) in Saudi Arabia
- Al-Madinah or Yethrib (Medina) in Saudi Arabia
- Al-Qods (Eastern Jerusalem) in the Palestinian Territories
Holy Sites of Islam
Islam has a number of holy places. The three most important are:
- The Masjid al-Haram or Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in which sits the Ka'aba or Black Cube. Muslims are required, if financially able, to visit the Ka'aba once in their lives in the pilgrimage known as the Hajj. The largest congregational open prayers are done in Mecca and Medina during the Hajj. Refer to related question below on how to perform the Hajj.
- The Masjid al-Nabawi or the Prophet's Mosque in Medina/Yethrib, Saudi Arabia. (The city is known by both names.) This was the second mosque built in the history of Islam, and built adjacent to Muhammad's house in Medina/Yethrib. It established the proper shape and style of mosque building as well as being Muhammad's final resting place.
- The Haram al-Sharif and the Al-Aqsa Mosque or the Dome of the Rock and the Distant Mosque in Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine. This is the place where prophet Muhammad was ascended to heaven as God miracle.
Additionally, there are famous mosques which hold great prestige or value such as the Jame'a Bani Umayya al-Kabir or the Great Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria or the Jame'a Al-Azhar or Flower Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. There are also special mosques that are significant primarily to only Shiites such as Abbas Mosque, in Karbala, Iraq. These are called The "Ahl Al-Bayt".
Finally, the tombs of Sufi saints are also seen as limited holy places to Muslims and there are some towns, like Moulay Idriss, Morocco which have become sanctified due to the burial of an Islamic Saint.
When is the third temple in israel supposed to be built?
Jews have been returning to Israel for decades, and substantially more than half
of the world's Jews live there now. Rebuilding the Holy Temple will be a problem
but, might I observe, not the first problem to have been encountered there.
Answer:
In effect, the question is asking when the mashiach (messiah) will come. Because prior to that, no responsible Rabbi has or will call for an attempt to rebuild the Temple. Not only because we don't have the required level of ritual purity, but also because we're not going to do anything to endanger the Jewish community.
So: when will the mashiach come? No human being knows. Attempts to guess, or predict, or press for his coming have all ended in embarrassment - at best.
What year was the temple in jerusalem built?
In the sixth year of Darius I which was 522-486 BC. So the temple was complete in 516.
Answer:According to traditional chronology, the Second Temple was built in 352 BCE.How many miles from lisbon to Jerusalem?
The distance between the two places is 693 miles.
This is an approximate direct (straight line) distance. During actual travel, this distance may change if a different flight route is chosen.
How many times a year did the children of Israel present themselves in Jerusalem for a feast?
I think they had one feast the passover.
How far is Jerusalem from maalot?
It is about 2 hours by train to Nahariya, and 30 min on the shuttle bus from nahariya to Maalot, or 1 hour 40 min by car using kvish 6 (toll road) or 2 hours by car by toll fre road
Why was Jerusalem chosen as Israel's capital?
Jerusalem was chosen as the modern capital of Israel due to the historical and religious nature of the city. Every Jewish nation that has controlled Jerusalem has ruled from it (from Davidic times to Judea to the Hasmoneans). Additionally, it is seen as a center of Jewish culture and history.
Is Jerusalem a holy city in Islam?
Answer 1
Absolutely; but you will not find it mentioned by name. This is standard for the Koran. For example, Muhammad is mentioned in the Koran only one time by name, only once and yet there are many references to Muhammad in the Koran without mentioning his name. The same is true for Jerusalem whereby the stories of Solomon in the Koran (Solomon is mentioned in the Koran over 20 times) mention the building of the temple; the stories of Moses and the Exodus (Moses is mentioned over 160 times) refer to finding the holy land; the Kingdom of David (David is mentioned 17 times); the mount of olives (in east Jerusalem) is sworn by in the quran; Also the farthest house of worship (the temple in Jerusalem) is mentioned several times, in one instance to explain why Muslims should no longer face towards Jerusalem in Prayer.
The most mentioned (explicitly) place name in the Koran is "Egypt" (mentioned by name four times; more than Mecca which is mentioned by name only once), but this does not mean Egypt is holy in Islam or diminishes Mecca and Jerusalem's place in Islam one iota.
The word Quds to describe Jerusalem is not found in the Qur'an.
Answer 2
The city of Jerusalem is never mentioned by name. It is not called Ursalim (which is the Coptic Arabic word for Jerusalem and presumably the word that would be used at that time) nor is it called Al-Qods (which is the current Arabic name for Jerusalem). The Qur'an refers to a location called Al-Aqsa (which means "the most distant") and may or may not have been a reference to Jerusalem.Answer 1 makes the assumption that the common interpretation of today is necessarily what Mohammed intended in terms of his discussion of allusions to Jerusalem. Since, other than his supposed flight astride a buraq (very similar to a Pegasus), Mohammed never left what is today Saudi Arabia, Al-Aqsa could very well have referred to a distant place in Arabia. It is not clear from the Qur'an alone that Jerusalem is being referred to. It is only from Muslim tradition (the Sunna and the Fiqh) that Al-Aqsa refers to Jerusalem.
Why was Jerusalem sacred to Muslims?
Because apparently their prophet Mohammad was born there.
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The prophet Muhammad was born in 570 in the Arabian city of Mecca.
Discontented with life in Mecca sometime after age 25, he retreated to
a cave in the surrounding mountains for meditation and reflection.
According to Islamic beliefs, it was there, at age 40, in the month of
Ramadan, that he received his first divine revelation. Three years after
this event, Muhammad started preaching these revelations publicly.
Muhammad gained few followers early on, and he and his followers
were met with hostility and harsh treatment from some Meccan tribes.
To escape persecution, Muhammad sent some of his followers to Abyssinia,
and he and his remaining followers in Mecca migrated to Medina (then known
as Yathrib) in the year 622. This event, the Hijra, marks the beginning of the
Islamic calendar.
In Medina, Muhammad united the conflicting tribes, and after eight years of
fighting with the Meccan tribes, his followers conquered Mecca.
In 632, a few months after returning to Medina from his Farewell pilgrimage,
Muhammad fell ill and died. By the time of his death, most of the Arabian
Peninsula had converted to Islam, and he united the tribes of Arabia into a
single Muslim religious entity.
Mecca is roughly 650 miles from the nearest point in modern Israel, and Medina
is roughly 460 miles distant.
What is the flight time from jfk to Jerusalem?
The average flight time from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Ben Gurion International Airport is 11 hours, 21 minutes.
How long does flight from Melbourne to Jerusalem take?
About 18 hours on a commercial Jet, assuming no stops.
How was jerusalem valuable to christians Jews and Muslims?
Answer 1
Jerusalem is important in the history of Muslims because when the Muslims reached the Jerusalem they ruled over there .The principle of Islam is not to make the restrictions for the believers of others to follow the Islam forcefully. Islam is the religion of peace .in Islam it is forbidden to destroy the holly places of other religions. islam allows the non believers to worship their own believes. and in the Jerusalem there came the ruler AL Hakeem who ruled against the Islamic laws .he ordered to destroys the holly places of christens .in his age the crusaders then enter the Jerusalem to defend their holly places. and try to conquer the Jerusalem. that's why Muslims have importance or the Jerusalem in their history.
Answer 2
More to the point, it is impossible to weigh the particular value of any one holy site to its adherents as more important than another site in a different religion. The presence of Muslim and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem makes it equally holy for both.
Who conquered Jerusalem in 587 BCE?
All of the following countries have controlled Jerusalem:
- Proto-Canaanite
- Egyptian New Kingdom
- Jebusites
- United Kingdom of Israel
- Judah
- Neo-Assyrian Empire
- Neo-Babylonian Empire
- Achaemenid Persian Empire
- Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great
- Ptolemaic Hellenic Empire
- Seleucid Hellenic Empire
- Hasmonean Kingdom
- Roman Empire
- Byzantine Empire
- Sassanid Persian Empire
- Rightly-Guided Islamic Caliphate
- Umayyad Islamic Caliphate
- Abbassid Islamic Caliphate
- Fatimid Islamic Caliphate
- Seljuk Sultanate
- Kingdom of Jerusalem and Other Crusader States
- Ayyubid Islamic Caliphate
- Mamluk Sultanate
- Ottoman Sultanate
- British Empire
- Jewish State of Israel & Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (the city was divided from 1949-1967 between the two countries)
- Jewish State of Israel (exclusively)
What continent is the dome of the rock on?
The "Dome of the Rock" and the rest of the Al Aksa Mosque are located on the Temple Mount,
in the 'old city' portion of Jerusalem, in Israel, on the continent of Asia.
From Bethlehem to Jerusalem what direction would you travel?
You would travel south from Jerusalem to Bethlehem.
What is the distance between the state of Alabama and Jerusalem Israel?
the distance is: 6,607 miles. 10,633 kilometers.
How long is the flight from Philippines to Jerusalem?
A random search for flights from Manila (MNL) to Tel Aviv (TLV) shows:
OPTION 1: 17hr 35min via Bangkok (BKK) & Amman (AMM)
MNL - BKK Philippine Airlines Flt 732 Dep 07:25pm 14Jan,Thu
BKK - AMM Royal Jordanian Flt 183 Dep 11:35pm 14Jan,Thu
AMM - TLV Royal Jordanian Flt 342 Dep 06:15am 15Jan,Fri
Flight Duration: 13hr 50min; Layover Time: 3hr 45min; Total Trip Time: 17hr 35min
OPTION 2: 17hr 25min via Bangkok (BKK)
MNL - BKK Philippine Airlines Flt 732 Dep 07:25pm 14Jan,Thu
BKK - TLV Thai Airways Flt 4593 Dep 12:40am 15Jan,Fri
Operated by El Al Israel Airlines
Flight Duration: 14hr 30min; Layover Time: 2hr 55min; Total Trip Time: 17hr 25min
OPTION 3: 20hr 40min via Amsterdam (AMS)
MNL - AMS KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Flt 804 Dep 11:35am 15Jan,Fri
AMS - TLV KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Flt 461 Dep 08:50pm 15Jan,Fri
Flight Duration: 18hr 30min; Layover Time: 2hr 10min; Total Trip Time: 20hr 40min
What is the most famous mosque in Jerusalem?
Probably the Al Aksa mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Before Jerusalem became the capital of Israel what other city was Israel's capital?
Yes and No. There are several different cities that served as capitals of Ancient Israel such as Giv'ah (Gibeah) during the Saul, Hebron during the early Davidic Kingdom leadership, Samaria for the Northern Kingdom of Israel, and Jerusalem for the remainder of the Davidic Kingdom to the Babylonian Exile and during the Hasmonean Kingdom. Jerusalem is the current capital of the State of Israel although most nations refuse to officially recognize it as such because of its disputed status and maintain their embassies in Tel Aviv.
What is the Islamic view of Jerusalem?
According to Islam and Koran Jerusalem is a holly land and Koran says:
We blessed the around of Jerusalem
Also Jerusalem was the first place Muslims were praying to its direction and then that direction changed to Kaaba in Mecca.
What is the capital of Israel and where is it located?
Answer
Israel's capital is Jerusalem. West Jerusalem was established as the national capital in 1950; and in 1980 the Jerusalem Law made the entire unified city of Jerusalem the Israeli capital. It is located in the Judean Highlands in the geographic center of the country. It also sits astride the border between Israel proper and the West Bank Territories of Palestine.
The Debate on Jerusalem
It is understandable that Israel, being of holy significance to 3 major religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) and being one of the most fought-over and conquered pieces of land in the history of mankind, will spark a monsoon of debate, as to who owns what. But, the fact remains that the capital of Israel was proclaimed by the Israeli government and this capital is Jerusalem.
The issue that a lot of international groups have with the Israeli Declaration that Jerusalem is its capital is that the city defined by the Israelis as Jerusalem contains both de jureIsraeli territory (West Jerusalem) and the de jurenon-Israeli territory (East Jerusalem) which is owed, theoretically, to a Palestinian State. The UN Security Resolution 478 crystallized the international stance on this issue. If Israel, like East Germany, claimed that half of a city was its operating capital (i.e. West Jerusalem - but East Berlin in the German case), many international observers would have fewer objections to recognizing it as the capital of Israel. However, as the official Israeli capital contains territory that is not technically Israeli, many organizations and countries prefer to treat Tel Aviv, a city that is unequivocally Israeli and the site of David Ben Gurion's Declaration of Independence, as the working capital. Therefore, all embassies in Israel are in Tel Aviv.
When and Why was the Dome of the Rock built in Jerusalem?
The Dome of the Rock is an Islamic Shrine located on the Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary). This happens to be the same location as the Temple Mount. According to Islam, Mohammed ascended to heaven at this location.
The Dome of the Rock is located in Jerusalem at the foot of the Mount of Olives. It is basically a shrine with a Gold Dome Roof. It is said that Mohammad flew to Heaven on a winged horse from this same exact spot. It is the third most holy landmark in the Muslim religion. Mecca is the first most holy place. Medina is the second most holy place and The Dome of The Rock is the third. Incidentally, the Dome of The Rock is in the exact same spot that the Jewish Temple has been two previous times before. In The Holy Bible God advised Solomon that the Temple was to be erected on that one particular site and no where else. These places are called holy, but nothing can be truly holy other than God.
