Alias:<ALIA> Abdul /Malik/ According to http://jeru.huji.ac.il/ee21.htm: DOME OF THE ROCK: This is the oldest Muslim building which has survived basically intact in its original form. It was built by the Caliph Abd al-Malik and completed in 691 CE> The building encloses a huge rock located at its center, from which, according to tradition, the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven at the end of his Night Journey. In the Jewish tradition this is the Foundation Stone, the symbolic foundation upon which the world was created, and the place of the Binding of Isaac....Abd al-Malik marked the end of the construction with a dedicatory inscription (still visible) which reads: "This dome was build by the servant of God Abd al-Malik Ibn Marwan, emir of the faithful, in the year seventy-two" (Hejira 72 in the Muslin calendar is 691/692 CE).