Islamic Art - quiz 3

• Qa’aba (shrine)

• Mecca (first house of worship there)

• in place by 570s CE

• Destroyed and replaced in 680s by Abd Allah ibn Zubair who contested Umayyad power

• House of Muhammad (first mosque)

• Medina

• 622 CE (Hijra)

• original building that shaped the principal architecture forms of early congregational mosques

• Dome of Rock (Qubbat al-Sahra)

• shrine in Jerusalem

• 687 - 692 CE

• Center sits rock which is believed to commemorate the night journey of Muhammad

• Some mosaics of inner octagon of dome have Sassanian origin with their style of crowns

• Great Mosque

• Damascus, Syria

• 706 - 715 CE

• built as a means to establish permanence of Umayyad rule in Syria

• Walls are painted with Byzantine tradition with rivers, trees and houses

• wooden boards of Al - Aqsa mosque

• Jerusalem

• 746 CE - Time of Caliph al - Mansur

• Muslims believe Muhammad was transported from sacred mosque in Mecca to al-Aqsa during the night journey and then to heaven

• 1st qibla