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Why the Al-Aqsa Mosque has often been a site of conflict

  • Written by Ken Chitwood, Lecturer, Concordia College New York | Journalist-fellow, USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Concordia College New York
Why the Al-Aqsa Mosque has often been a site of conflictMuslims pray at the Mihrab, a niche in a wall indicating the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca, at the Foundation Stone, located under the Dome of the Rock in the Al- Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City.Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images

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