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Dome of the Chain

Dome of the Chain is an Islamic free-standing domed building located adjacently east of the in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of .
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  • Type: Mosque
  • Description: Freestanding dome located adjacently east of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem
  • Address: القدس
  • Roof shape: pyramidal

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Place of worship
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The is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the in the . It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, the earliest archaeologically attested…

Mosque
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The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque or Qibli Chapel, is the main congregational mosque or in the compound in the Old City of . is situated 210 metres south of Dome of the Chain.

Synagogue
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The is an ancient retaining wall of the built-up hill known to Jews and Christians as the of Jerusalem. Its most famous section, known by the same name, often shortened by Jews to the Kotel or Kosel, is known in the West as the Wailing Wall, and in Arab world and Islamic world as the Buraq Wall. is situated 190 metres southwest of Dome of the Chain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old City and Gethsemane.

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The of Jerusalem is that part of surrounded by the impressive 16th-century Ottoman city walls and representing the heart of the city both historically and spiritually.

Locality
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is a garden at the foot of the in , where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four sectors of the ancient, walled . It covers 31 hectares of the northeastern sector of the Old City.

Dome of the Chain

Latitude
31.77808° or 31° 46′ 41″ north
Longitude
35.23574° or 35° 14′ 9″ east
Height
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
8G3QQ6HP+67
Open­Street­Map ID
way 45099263
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­religious
Open­Street­Map attribute
roof-shape=­pyramidal
Wiki­data ID
Q2141548
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Dome of the Chain” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Qubbat As-Silsīlah”
  • Arabic: “قبة السلسلة”
  • Belarusian: “Купал Ланцуга”
  • Bengali: “কুব্বাত আস-সিলসিলা”
  • Breton: “Bolz ar Chadenn”
  • Chinese: “链圆顶”
  • Czech: “Řetězový dóm”
  • Dutch: “Kettingkoepel”
  • Esperanto: “Kupolo de la Ĉeno”
  • French: “Dôme de la Chaîne”
  • Fulah: “Dome of the Chain”
  • German: “Kettendom”
  • Greek: “Θόλος της Αλυσίδας”
  • Hebrew: “כיפת השלשלת”
  • Hungarian: “Lánckupola”
  • Indonesian: “Kubah Silsilah”
  • Italian: “Cupola della Catena”
  • Japanese: “鎖のドーム”
  • Macedonian: “Купола на Верига”
  • Malay: “Kubah Rantai”
  • Malay: “Kubah Silsilah”
  • Persian: “قبه سلسله”
  • Portuguese: “Domo da Cadeia”
  • Romanian: “Cupola Lanțului”
  • Russian: “Купол Цепи”
  • Spanish: “Cupula de la Cadena”
  • Spanish: “Cúpula de la Cadena”
  • Turkish: “Silsile Kubbesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Купол Ланцюга”
  • Urdu: “قبہ سلسلہ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dome of the Chain”. Photo: Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0.