Exhibit 13a- Dome of the Rock. Exhibits 13a-13g
are views of the outside of the Dome of the Rock.
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Exhibit 13b- Dome of the Rock. The Dome of the Rock is an
octagonal building, having eight sides. It was originally built as a
church by the Christian Byzantines during the first quarter of the 7th
century. Octagonal churches were a common Byzantine design. This site was
chosen for a church in order to insult the Jews who, a few years earlier,
had assisted the Persians in their conquest of Eretz Yisroel.
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Exhibit 13c- Dome of the Rock. When the Arabs captured Eretz
Yisroel in the middle of the 7th century, they converted
the octagonal church into a Moslem shrine.
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Exhibit 13d- Dome of the Rock. The building has been damaged
many times by earthquakes and it had to be repaired and rebuilt.
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Exhibit 13e- Dome of the Rock. The old dome was gold plated but
that has been replaced with gold colored aluminum.
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Exhibit 13f- Dome of the Rock.
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Exhibit 13g- Dome of the Rock.
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