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Who replaced the Crusaders’ iron screen with the wooden screen around the sacred rock?
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Dome of the Rock
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem.
The Ayyubids replaced the wrought-iron screen, which had been installed by the Crusaders to prevent pilgrims from taking relics, with the wooden screen that surrounds the sacred rock today.1