Overview
A small lower prayer chamber associated with the Night Journey tradition. [1]
The Buraq prayer hall lies below the southern end of the Western Portico, beside the Maghariba Gate. A stair descends to the chamber, which contains a mihrab and a metal ring. [1]
Muslim tradition associates the ring with the tethering of al-Buraq during the Prophet Muhammad’s Night Journey. Awqaf dates the visible ring to the Ottoman period and describes the chamber’s standing fabric as Mamluk with earlier origins. The object commemorates the tradition; it is not a surviving object dated to the Night Journey. [1]
