Was the Dome of the Rock a church?

"Leilat al-Qadr (Night of Destiny) is the night the Koran is said to have come down from heaven to earth. Researchers of Islamic Studies from the universities of Saarbruecken in Germany, Aix-en-Provence in France and Cattolica de Milano in Italy have come to some surprising conclusions about this, which were published in The Dark Origins of Islam—New Research on the Early History of Islam by Karl-Heinz Ohlig and Gerd-Rüdiger Puin."

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