Mel#8: It's the 18th century, & still NOT LIKE today's DOME!

Mel moves to the 1500s to find out if the Dome they describe then is the same as the one we see today, and guess what he finds: 1526 AD Sebastian Munster (German) who is Elia Levita's disciple goes to the Dome and says that it's builder was Umar. 1552 AD: Munster then describes the reparations which were happening to the Dome, but says it is Octagonal in shape. 1574 AD: Georges Bruin (of Cologne) notes that the Dome was octagonal and with a raised cupola. 1576 AD: He goes on to say that it was still octagonal in style, but with a higher cupola than today. 1602 AD: Villamont mentions that it was Umar who built the Dome. 1608 AD: Henri baron de Beauvau, because as a Christian he couldn't go into the Dome, because it would be a capital offense. So, he hired a Muslim to enter it and describe it to him. The Muslim said that it was all white in the interior, with a remnant of some mosaics. Could this be the time they were working on the inscriptions? 1608 AD: Jean Zvallart, who was the custodian of the Church of the Sepulchre, in Jerusalem, wrote a 700 paged book about Jerusalem, and mentions in it that Umar was responsible for building the Dome. 1610 AD: George Sandys' wrote that the Dome was built by Umar, a successor of Muhammad, and that the dome itself was covered in lead, unlike the Dome today, which is golden. 1617 AD: Fynes Moryson mentions that no Christians were permitted into the Dome because there were inscriptions there against Jesus, which really makes no sense. 1620 AD: Bernardino Amio mentions as well that the inscription and the Dome were built by Umar. 1700 AD: Noe Bianchi visited the Dome and mentions that it was octagonal in shape. 1730s AD: Ahmed III referred to his visit to Jerusalem and mentioned that there were extensive restorations going on at the Dome. He mentions a large quantity of pigments and tiles were being used, which could easily have been used to make the inscriptions and mosaics we see today? 1745 AD: Richard Pococke, an architect refers to the architectural plan of the Dome, mentioning that it used green tiles. 1744 AD: Elzearius Horn notes that the Dome had a circular drum, which is the shape it has today. So it's not until the mid 18th century, over 1,000 years after Abd al-Malik, that we finally begin to see a Dome which is similar to the one we have today. But that is 1,000 years too late. © Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, 2022 (65,240) Music: "Townsong" by Alexander Nakarada, from filmmusic-io