Islamic caliphs begin to employ Christian mosaicists…

710 CE

Islamic caliphs begin to employ Christian mosaicists of the Eastern Roman Empire to decorate the Mosque known as the Dome of the Rock, under construction in Jerusalem since 661.

Construction begins in 710 on the al-Aqsa Mosque, also on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

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