Al Aqsa Mosque. 2. Masjid Al Aqsa: Sometimes referred to as Masjid al Quds, it is the 3 rd Holiest Place in Islam. It is situated inside Harm Sharif along the Southern wall. Masjid Al Aqsa was the first Qibla for Muslims. It was changed to Ka'aba after 16 or 17 months.After sixteen or seventeen months of facing Jerusalem, and right before the Battle of Badr which marked the true confrontation between truth and falsehood and the beginning of the collapse of idolatry, the Prophet received commands from his Lord to face the Kaabah again; i.e. to go back to the first qiblah.. The happiness of the Prophet and the Muslim community with the command was great and
Baitul-Muqaddas:. Jerusalem (Hebrew: Yerushaláyim); (Arabic: al-Quds القُدس or Bayt al-Maqdis or Baitul Muqaddas), is a city in Western Asia, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Seas. It is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
ANfminb.distance between makkah and baitul muqaddas
