 The mosque was the first direction of prayer in Muhammad's lifetime, before the Kaaba in Mecca, and Muhammad was believed to have been taken by the miraculous steed, that is the Buraq, to visit Al-Aqsa Mosque, where he prayed, and was then taken to the heavens, in a single night in the year 620 CE that is known as "Al-Isrāʾ wal-Miʿrāj" ("The Night-Journey and the Ascension").References to it exist in Surah Al-Ma'idah (5), Al-Isra' (17), Al-Anbiya and Saba' (34)