Jerusalem
القدس
City sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims; the first qibla of Islam, the destination of the Night Journey in tradition, and surrendered to the Muslims in 637 CE.
Depth
At a glance
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- GeoNamesPleiades
- Review
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Connections
- Visited by
- Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali
- Home of
- Shaddad ibn Aws
- Site of
- The Isra and Mi'raj
- Contains
- Masjid Al-AqsaDome of the RockMosque of Omar
People and things also explored
MeccaThe AnsarArba'un 17 — God has prescribed ihsan upon everythingThe Prophetic EraAbu Bakr al-SiddiqAbu Jahl (Amr ibn Hisham)MuhammadBaghdad
Sources
- GeoNames gazetteer
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Jerusalem”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/jerusalem/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.