Rejoicing in what Allah has bestowed upon them of His bounty, and they receive good tidings about those [to be martyred] after them who have not yet joined them - that there will be no fear concerning them, nor will they grieve.
Maxime Du Camp:
Printer Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille French.
August 20, 1850
بعد تسلم عمر بن الخطاب مفاتيح بيت المقدس من البطريرك صفرونيوس "Sophronius" خطب عمر في أهل بيت المقدس قائلا: «يا أهل ايلياء لكم ما لنا وعليكم ما علينا.» ثم دعاه البطريرك لتفقد كنيسة القيامة، فلبى دعوته، وأدركته الصلاة وهو فيها فالتفت إلى البطريرك وقال له أين أصلى، فقال «مكانك صل» فقال: ما كان لعمر أن يصلي في كنيسة القيامة فيأتي المسلمون من بعدي ويقولون هنا صلى عمر ويبنون عليه مسجدا. وابتعد عنها رمية حجر وفرش عباءته وصلى، وجاء المسلمون من بعده وبنوا على ذلك المكان مسجدا المسمى بمسجد عمر.
وأعطى عمر أهل بيت المقدس عهداً مكتوباً (العهدة العمرية) وكان ذلك في العام 15 الهجري.
Mosque of Omar by Louis Haghe after a drawing by David Roberts, lithograph with hand coloring on paper, 1842 by Wasfi Akab
Via Flickr:
The Ayyubid Mosque of Omar is an Islamic place of worship inside the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located opposite the southern courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Muristan area of the Christian Quarter. The mosque is not open to tourists, and can be accessed only for praying. Wikipedia
Auguste Salzmann French
Printer Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille French
1854
This is one portion of a three-part panorama that forms an all-encompassing view from outside Jerusalem’s walls. It displays the city’s architectural diversity, including domed mosques and churches, ancient masonry, and towering minarets. Although other photographic views of Jerusalem had been produced by Maxime Du Camp and Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Salzmann’s project was the most thorough and ambitious to date. Before its integration into the 1856 album, this panorama was offered separately in 1854. A review in the prominent Paris bulletin Annales Archéologiques suggested that the photographs forged a spiritual relationship with the sacred city: "We have here living Jerusalem. . . . An identical panorama should be exposed in all the churches and in all the seminaries, under the eyes of the young people who are destined for the priesthood; there is no description that inspires thoughts more numerous or more profound."
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