The Dome of the Rock - classic or dud

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It is a mosque in Jerusalem with a golden dome. I think it one of the most beautiful buildings in the world, and as emblematic of Jerusalem as the Eifel Tower is of Paris. However, not everyone likes it, for the other day I saw some nutjob with a model of his proposed Third Temple in Jerusalem, designed to replace the Dome of the Rock and other buildings around it.

What do you think of the Dome of the Rock?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.stjudeheroes.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10537.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

It'd be cooler if the dome could retract like the Toronto Dome.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Like this:

http://www.atlastours.net/holyland/dome_of_the_rock_inside.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Major problem: D of R is built on the supposed site of Solomon's temple (not sure how accurate the surveying is on that one, but that's what I've been told) and the end times cannot commence until the temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem.

When I was little and brainwashed and took things literally, I used to think it was a measure of God's Great Plan that someday, somehow, the D of R would be thrown down (perhaps by a fiery earthquake? it seems suitably divine) so that the temple could be replaced, Christ could come again, and we could all go unto a "new Heaven and a new Earth". Good times.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

the end times cannot commence until the temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem.

I would like to retract my wish for dome retraction.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

i've always wanted to see it.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

most of the time I wish the whole "Holy Land" would just sink into the ocean, sparing all of us the insanity of the never-ending fight over who "owns" it.

I guess the Dome of the Rock is kinda pretty.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Not the Holy Land! Great citrus grows there!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Would be cooler if it were "Dome of the Roc" and a huge mythical bird nested there at sunset and preyed on the neighborhoods below.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

http://itsbeentime.blogspirit.com/images/medium_sq-damon-dash-jay-z-roc.3.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

the very dwelling of hova

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

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