Back قبة السلسلة Arabic Купал Ланцуга Byelorussian কুব্বাত আস-সিলসিলা Bengali/Bangla Cúpula de la Cadena Spanish قبه سلسله Persian Dôme de la Chaîne French כיפת השלשלת HE Kubah Silsilah ID Cupola della Catena Italian Купола на Верига Macedonian

Dome of the Chain

The Dome of the Chain outside the Dome of the Rock

Dome of the Chain (Arabic: قبة السلسلة, romanized: Qubbat al-Silsilah) is an Islamic free-standing domed building located adjacently east of the Dome of the Rock in the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is one of many small buildings that can be found scattered around the Al Aqsa Mosque . Its exact historical use and significance are under scholarly debate. Erected in 691–92 CE,[1] the Dome of the Chain is one of the oldest surviving structures at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.[2]

It was built by the Umayyads, became a Christian chapel under the Crusaders, was restored as an Islamic prayer house by the Ayyubids, and has been renovated by the Mamluks, Ottomans and the Jordanian-based waqf.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Pringle was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Archnet: Qubba al-Silsila
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