This blog (by Zeev Barkan) is dedicated to the Star of David, its history, its various meanings and usages in different cultures. It includes thousands of pictures of Star of David, six-pointed stars, hexagrams, Solomon's Seals, Magen Davids and yellow badges,and served as a resource for three books and four art exhibitions.
Here the Solomon Seals appear above the arch of the Dome of the Rock. Actually there are more six-pointed stars on the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem: a large one is to be found on a wooden ornament that had been inside the Dome of the Rock, but was transferred to Rockefeller Museum. Another large one is embedded in the marble floor of the Dome of the Chain, immediately to the east of the Dome of the Rock.
Copyright: ©David Kolker 2008
The Dome of the Rock is the first Muslim monument. It was built by Abd al-Malik in the 7th century. The six-pointed stars appear on the exterior of the Dome, between the arches. Since they look exactly like the Jewish Stars of David, and since the Palestinians chose the Dome of the Rock as their national symbol, many tourists get confused and ask why does the Jewish national emblem appear on the Muslim national symbol, but actually we are dealing here with the Muslim hexagram, called Solomon Seal. Copyright: ©David Kolker 2008
The six-pointed stars appear in the most important sites of the monotheistic religions, like the Holy Arks in Jewish Synagogues, facades and stained glasses of Christian Cathedrals (even in a mosaic floor of the Vatican library). Here they appear on the exterior of the Muslim Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem, running above all, and alongside some, of the arches (on a green background). Photo is courtesy of David Kolker, who took the photo this past summer. Copyright: ©David Kolker 2008
Photo of Star of David made to look like a maple leaf is courtesy of jcjface from Flickr who wrote to me thatThe star is from the front of the Ontario Science Centre in Canada. It's etched into the sidewalk outside.
Photo of Star of David in the word Coexist on a big billboard poster in a public park in Amsterdam outside the Van Gogh museum is courtesy of
Muslim crescent symbol representing the "C;" the Jewish Star of David, the "X;" and the Christian cross, the "T." ...reminds Christians, Jews and Muslims that we all have a shared heritage, we are all distant cousins – family as well as neighbours. Neighbours who have a lot in common to talk about. Jews and Arabs [who are mostly Muslims] can trace their ancestry back to Abraham and Christians through faith are recognised as his “spiritual” sons.
Photo is courtesy of Seoirse who published it on Flickr and wrote in the caption:Buddhism, Islam Judaism Sikhism Hinduism Christianity Taoism Bahaiism Jainism Shinto Zoroastrianism.... projected onto the wall from the Saint Mungo museum of religious life and art, Glasgow, Scotland.
