Dome of the Rock

The most famous Islamic site in Jerusalem is the Dome of the Rock. It is a mathamatically perfect structure and houses a hair of Muhammad's beard and the sacred rock inside the shrine stood in the center of Solomon's Temple. For Jews, it is the rock on which Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac. For Muslims, it is the rock from which Muhammad's winged horse lept into the sky, accompanied by the Archangel Gabriel, on the "Night Journey" into heaven. Muslim tradition holds that an angel will come to the rock to sound the trumpet call of the Last Judgment at the end of the world... when we went around the corner I made a trumpet sound but no one got too excited or paid too much attention.... I got more reaction for making bagpipe sounds in Scotland..... may be I should have tried the bagpipe sounds here as everyone knows hearing them puts the fear of the Lord into you...

There is also a tradition that if you say a prayer here after having walked around the rock you can get a certificate entitling admission to paradise... if anyone wants access to paradise let me know and I will have it buried with you....I think I am covered from the few coins i threw into the pot at the church of the Holy Sepulchre....