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Naming the Jerusalem mosque al-Aqsa was an attempt to say the Dome of the Rock was the very spot from which Mohammed ascended to heaven. But Mohammed died in the year 632, nearly 50 years before the first construction of the al-Aqsa Mosque was completed.
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