Al Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem Temple Mount

**Download includes source files in SKP and KMZ formats.** Al-Aqsa Mosque (ٱلْـمَـسْـجِـد الْاَقْـصَى), "The Farthest Mosque") is the third holiest site in Islam and is located on Jerusalem's Temple Mount in Palestine. Muslims believe that Muhammad was transported from the Sacred Mosque in Mecca to al-Aqsa in Jerusalem during the Night Journey. When the Crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099, they used the mosque as a palace and the Dome of the Rock as a church, but its function as a mosque was restored after its recapture by Saladin in 1187. More renovations, repairs and additions were undertaken in the later centuries by the Ayyubids, Mamluks, Ottomans, the Supreme Muslim Council, and Jordan.