i dont understand what you're saying. are you saying Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock are outside of Jerusalem? or that neither has significance in Islam?
the Al-Aqsa Mosque is on the Western Wall, correct?
Not exactly. The Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock are both inside Jerusalem, which Muslims call Al-Quds, meaning “The Holy.” That name comes from an earlier term, Bayt al-Maqdis Arabic for “The Holy House” which itself was a translation of the Hebrew Beit HaMikdash, the Jewish Temple.
So originally, Muslims referred to the city using the same root concept of holiness inherited from Judaism and Christianity. Over time, Bayt al-Maqdis was shortened to Al-Quds, and after the Umayyad caliphs built the Dome of the Rock and the southern mosque (today’s Al-Aqsa), the name became synonymous with Jerusalem as a holy city in Islam.
Still, the Quran never mentions Jerusalem or Al-Quds by name. The verse about al-Masjid al-Aqsa (“the farthest mosque”) doesn’t specify a location. Only decades later did the Umayyad rulers identify it with Jerusalem, to elevate the city’s status and tie it to the Prophet’s Night Journey.
So historically, Jerusalem - Al-Quds - became holy in Islam later on, through politics and religious tradition, not through direct Quranic mention. And just to clarify, the mosque isn’t built on the Western Wall; the Wall is a retaining wall of the ancient Jewish Temple Mount, supporting the raised platform where Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock stand.