The Umayyad al-Aqsa mosque completed under al-Walid I

The Umayyad mosque of Jerusalem rose on the pattern of the great hypostyle mosques; it was built from scratch or completed in the caliphate of al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik (86–96/705–715), after Abd al-Malik had built upon the earlier foundation. ^{1 2}

The Umayyad mosque was a hypostyle building: many aisles perpendicular to the qibla wall, a wider central nave on the very axis of the Dome of the Rock, and a great deal of reused material from earlier structures. Architectural historians judge it either built anew or completed under al-Walid I. ¹ It served as Jerusalem's congregational mosque and as the roofed part of the whole Haram, which counted as the city's mosque; al-Muqaddasi, writing centuries later, says describers deemed it fairer than the Damascus mosque until the Abbasid-era earthquakes struck it. ²