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'''Change of the qibla''' (Arabic: {{ia|تحويل القبلة}}) is the event in which the [[qibla|qibla of Muslims]] (direction of performing some rituals) was redirected from [[al-Masjid al-Aqsa]], in [[Bayt al-Maqids]] (Jerusalem), to the [[Ka'ba]] (in [[Mecca]]). The event occurred in [[Rajab]], [[2]]/January, 624, after the [[revelation]] of [[al-Qibla Verse]] (Q 2:144). According to the majority of historiographers, the change of qibla occurred in [[Masjid al-Qiblatayn]] in [[Medina]] in the middle of the [[zuhr prayer]] (noon prayer). One interesting point about the redirection of the qibla is how people turned in the middle of a [[congregational prayer]] to over 160 degrees.