3D print the Al-Aqsa Mosque
A free, printable model of the Al-Aqsa Mosque with its dome and long prayer hall, and the courtyards and buildings of Jerusalem's Old City around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Al-Aqsa Mosque
The main prayer hall of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City is known as the Aqsa Mosque or the Qibli Mosque. It is a silver-domed congregational mosque set against the compound's southern wall. The name al-Masjid al-Aqsa mainly applies to the wider compound, and the building itself is also known as the Qibli Mosque.
According to Islamic tradition, Umar, the second caliph, built a small prayer hall on the site. During the reign of Mu'awiya I, an Umayyad caliph who ruled from 661 to 680, a quadrangular mosque for 3,000 worshipers is attested on the compound. Today's mosque goes back to Abd al-Malik, who ruled from 685 to 705 as the fifth Umayyad caliph, or to al-Walid I, who succeeded him and ruled until 715, or to both, and it lines up with the Dome of the Rock along a shared axis. An earthquake destroyed it in 746, and the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur rebuilt it in 758.
It was expanded in 780, then destroyed by another earthquake in 1033. The Fatimid caliph al-Zahir rebuilt it with seven aisles, and the current structure preserves that 11th-century outline. The Crusaders captured it in 1099 and used it as a palace, and the Knights Templar also made it their headquarters. After Saladin conquered the area in 1187, it became a mosque again. Later dynasties added to it and renovated it over the centuries.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 14 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 17 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 22 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Ribbed central roof and dome
- The dome is ribbed, and the long central roof is crossed by many fine ridges. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep those lines crisp, and a larger print keeps them separate.
- A long front of tall arches
- The north front is a row of tall arches with thin edges. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps every arch edge on a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- The Al-Aqsa Mosque is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Al-Aqsa Mosque takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Al-Aqsa Mosque is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there an Al-Aqsa Mosque STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Al-Aqsa Mosque grows with the print: about 14 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
