Laylat al-Qadr in Al-Aqsa

TOPSHOTS Muslim worshippers pray overnight August 14, 2012 outside at the Dome of the Rock in the Al-Aqsa mosques compound in Jerusalem’s Old City on the occasion of Lailat al-Qadr which falls on the 27th day of the fasting month of Ramadan. Laylat al-Qadr, or Night of Destiny, marks the night when the first verses of the Koran were revealed to the Prophet Mohammed through the archangel Gabriel.

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