




Broke out in the eastern wing of the al-Aqsa mosque a huge fire in August 21, 1969, fire gutted the entire contents of the wing, including the historic pulpit platform known Salah al-Din, also threatened to fire dome made of silver archaeological zone.
These have plotted the crime by Michael Dennis Rohan stunned the world and sparked off an angry private revolution across the Muslim world, the day after the fire has led thousands of Muslims Friday prayers in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem after the demonstrations swept in protest against the fire, and the repercussions of the fire was held the first Islamic Summit Conference in Rabat, Morocco.
The fire in three cases, namely:
I: In the mosque, "age", located in south-eastern corner of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which was the Caliph, "Abdul-Malik bin Marwan," re-built in 692 AD, was destroyed after the earthquakes.
II: in the pulpit, "Saladin" and the mihrab.
III: In the upper window located in the southwest corner of the Al Aqsa Mosque and the mosque rising from the ground about ten meters, and hard to reach from the inside without the use of high-handed, which was not available to the "Dennis Rohan," was a fire this window from the outside and not from the inside.
The Zionist occupation authorities cut off water from the area surrounding the mosque on the same day the fire, deliberately fire-fighting vehicles in the municipality of Jerusalem - controlled by the occupation - the delay; to not participate in extinguishing the fire, but fire trucks came from the Arab Hebron and Ramallah before and contributed to the fire .
The most important parts of the fire-affected building within the Al-Aqsa Mosque are:
1 - Forum "Saladin" which is a rare piece made from wood, interleaved with each other without the use of nails or screws or adhesive, the platform which was created by "Noor ad-Din ", and save it in the hope that puts it in the mosque if but when Edited by editing the" Saladin "move it and place it in its present position after the liberation of the mosque desecrated the Crusaders.
2 - Mosque "age", which was the roof of mud and wooden bridges.
3 - niche "Zakaria" next to the mosque, "Omar".
4 - next to the place of the forty-niche "Zakaria".
5 - Three galleries of the seven corridors stretching from south to north with columns, arches, decoration and part of the ceiling fell to the ground during the fire.
6 - co-columns with a bow between the two large stone under the dome of the mosque.
7 - wooden dome interior and decorative plaster colored and gilded with the collection of writings and inscriptions of plant and engineering them.
8 - colored marble mihrab.
9 - the southern wall and all Lamination marble colored them.
10 - Forty-eight window made of wood, plaster, stained glass and unique method of manufacture and drilling Leaning on plaster to prevent the entry of direct radiation into the mosque.
11 - All carpets.
12 - the beginning of Surat Al-Isra, made of gilded mosaic above the mihrab, and runs the length of twenty-three meters to the east.
13 - ornate wooden bridges carrying the lamps and extending between the capitals of the columns.