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The First Sundial (Dome of the Rock)

A sundial on the south-western side of the Dome of the Rock, by which the time of the afternoon (Asr) prayer was told.

It was made by Muhammad Tahir Abu Saud in 1224 AH / 1809, in the Ottoman era, and is the older of the two sundials of Al-Aqsa.

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