Islamic Museum on the Temple Mount

The Islamic Museum on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City was founded in 1923 by the Supreme Muslim Council. The museum occupies 3 halls and houses a rich collection of rarities covering 10 centuries of Islamic history. The building was built by the Templars, who used it as an extension to their headquarters – the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The museum presents coins, weapons and its fragments, cannons, heralding the end of day fasting during Ramadan cult objects, stained glass, wooden panels, ceramic tiles, iron doors of the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, as well as huge copper boilers of the XVI century, which were used in the kitchen of the sultan.

The museum has 600 copies of the Quran. Each differs in size, calligraphy and ornament (the size of the largest edition is 100x90 centimeters of the XIV century edition).

Among the exhibits are the bloody robes of 17 Palestinians who died during the 1990 Temple Mount riots.