Editing Dome of the Rock (section)

===Crusaders===
{{Main|Templum Domini}}
[[File:Seal of Templars.jpg|thumb|Depiction of the {{lang|la|Templum Domini}} on the reverse side of the seal of the Knights Templar]]

For centuries Christian pilgrims were able to come and experience the Temple Mount, but escalating violence against pilgrims to Jerusalem ([[Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah]], who ordered the destruction of the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre|Holy Sepulchre]], was an example) resulted in the [[Crusades]].<ref>Stark, Rodney. ''God's Battalions; a Case for the Crusades''. HarperCollins, NY, 2009, pp. 84–85.</ref> The Crusaders [[siege of Jerusalem (1099)|captured Jerusalem]] in 1099 and the Dome of the Rock was given to the [[Augustinians]], who turned it into a church, while the nearby Al-Aqsa main prayer hall or [[Qibli Mosque]] first became a royal palace for a while, and then for much of the 12th century the headquarters of the [[Knights Templar]]. The Templars, active from {{circa|1119}}, identified the Dome of the Rock as the site of the [[Temple of Solomon]].{{clarify|reason= The Crusaders called al-Aqsa {{lang|la|Templum Solomonis}} and the Dome of the Rock {{lang|la|Templum Domini}}. This apparent contradiction with what's stated here must be dealt with.|date=April 2023}} The {{lang|la|[[Templum Domini]]}}, as they called the Dome of the Rock, featured on the official [[Knights Templar Seal|seals]] of the Order's Grand Masters (such as [[Everard des Barres]] and [[Renaud de Vichiers]]), and soon became the architectural model for [[Round church|round Templar churches]] across Europe.<ref>''The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance,'' Jacob Burckhardt, Peter Murray, James C. Palmes, University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 81</ref>