No, the stone around which Jerusalem's iconic Dome of the Rock was built is not a meteorite. The stone, which has been given so much significance by Muslims and Jews, is part of a simple bedrock limestone protrusion of the same rock that makes up the hill upon which Jerusalem is constructed. It does not stand alone as a singular rock.
Indeed, given all the interest about this outcropping, one would think that there is something special about the rock's composition, that perhaps it fell from space. The Muslim's believe it was from that rock that Mohammed ascended to heaven, and the Jews believe it was the place Abraham was told by God to sacrifice Isaac.
But perhaps it is fitting that there is nothing unusual about the rock at all. Rather, that it is a place set apart by the mind of man that gives it its special quality.
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