Al-Buraq Mosque

The al-Buraq Mosque (Arabic: مَسْجِدُ ٱلْبُرَاق, romanized: Masjid al-Burāq) is a subterranean musalla next to the Buraq Wall (Western Wall), near the southwest corner of the Masjid al-Aqsa compound in the Old City of Jerusalem.

But the gate was already known to Muslims, as it was mentioned by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Muhammad al-Taflati al-Maghribi (d. 1777 CE): "It is the lower door, which is blocked by filling up soil and stones near the door of the Maghribeh Mosque.

The inside of the gate, which served as an entrance to the compound during the early Islamic period, is currently known as al-Buraq Mosque.

[8][9] The entrance to the underground structure faces north and immediately left of the Moors' Gate (Bāb al-Magharibah).

Overall, the gate passage was in use until some time after AD 985, when it was blocked and changed into a cistern adjacent to al-Buraq Mosque.

[13] At the end of the western corridor there is a gate that leads through steps to a rectangular underground room.

The stone is in a wall that people visit and seek blessings from, and they say that it is the one with which Prophet Muhammad tied Al-Buraq on the night of the Isra’.