Question: What is the name of the Muslim sacred site now located on the former site of Solomon's temple.
Answer: The Dome of the Rock.
Comments: The Dome of the Rock is located at the visual center of the Temple Mount. The second temple was destoyed during the Roman Siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE. Islam gained control of the land in 637 AD when Jerusalem was conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate army during the Islamic invasion of the Byzantine Empire. The Dome of the Rock was completed in 691, making it the oldest extant Islamic building in the world.
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