The Southern Arcature

Located in the middle of the southern end of the yard of the Dome of the Rock, which is located in the center of Al-Aqsa Mosque. It might have been built for the first time during the Umayyad period. However, it is surely renovated during the Abbasi period and then the Fatimid and the Ottoman. After that, it was renovated by the Islamic Waqf in 1402 Hijri\ 1982 AD.

It is made of three cylindrical pillars in the middle, surrounded from by two great hunges from the right and left side. It has a height of 6.5 meters, and stone-stairs of 20 steps connects the yard of the Mosuqe with the Yard of the Dome of the Rock.

There is a sundial in the southern facade of the southern arcature, which is used to find out the times of prayers. The sundial was used in the past instead of the watches today. It was made by the engineer of the Higher Islamic Counsil in 1907