6 MAY 1949, Page 20

THE DOME OF THE ROCK Sta,—Surely my good friend Owen

Tweedy is very wrong when he says, in his article 7erusalem's Fate, that " it was on the platform itself that Mohammed alighted from his mythical winged horse Burak after his miraculous nocturnal flight from Mecca." Is it not, instead, the tradition that it was from the platform, that Mohammed, on Burak, ascended to heaven?—Yours truly, H. E. B. CATLEY. 3 Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, E-C4-