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Teacher Al Aqsa Mosque The place chosen is Al Aqsa Mosque. Al Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam. Islamic tradition holds that Al Aqsa Mosque was the place where Prophet Muhammad prayed until the seventeenth month after the emigration. It is currently located in Israel but is under the administration of Jordanian and Palestinian waqf.Location:  located on the  Haram esh-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary) orTemple Mount, Old City of Jerusalem, Israel.Significance: Al Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam and believed to be one of the place when Prophet Muhammad received the command from God to lead the Muslims in five daily prayers and then ascended to Heaven.

Place: Muslims believe that Muhammad was transported from the Sacred Mosque in Mecca to al-Aqsa during the Night Journey. Islamic tradition holds that Muhammad led prayers towards this site until the seventeenth month after the emigration, when God directed him to turn towards the Kaaba.Human/environment interaction: Al Aqsa Mosque used to be just a small prayer house when first built by Rashidun caliph Umar and later expanded by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik until finally completed by his son al-Walid in 705 CE.

It was destroyed by an earthquake in 746 CE but rebuilt Abbasid caliph al-Mansur in 754 and again improved by al-Mahdi in 780 to assume its present structure. Movement: Al Aqsa is a symbol of Islam’s past prophets and prayer as it was the place where Prophet Muhammad received the command for Muslims to pray five times.Region: Middle East in the country of Israel.References"Al-Aqsa Mosque." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 16 Oct. 2014. Web. 16 Oct. 2014. ."Sacred Destinations." Al Aqsa Mosque. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2014. .