format_quote Originally Posted by
umie
Yes...but not recently...İ googled it a while ago because of a discussion about it. İt was a discussion about which prophet was a king and ordered djins to build a glass castle and died leaning on his stick...and by coincidence this google search led me to the build of Al Aqsa
Masjid al-Aqsa as mentioned in the Holy Quraan refers to the entire Temple Mount where the Haykal-e-Suleman once stood.
But now it is common to refer to a specific structure with the silver dome occupying the southern edge of the Temple Mount as the Masjid al-Aqsa, but that structure did not exist when the Quran was revealed. The specific structure which is now commonly called Masjid al-Aqsa (with the silver dome) was built by an Omayyad ruler. And the Temple Mount in its entirety is now commonly referred to as simply al-Haram al-Sharif (The Noble Sanctuary).
But as I said, what the Quraan refers to as Masjid al-Aqsa is not any particular structure but the entire Temple Mount and vicinity that was the place of worship built by King Solomon.