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| Within the interior of the mosque stands a green-glass shrine which purportedly contains the head of Saint John the Baptist (or Yahya in Arabic), honoured as a prophet by Christians and Muslims. Herod had the saint's head on a silver platter on the request of his daughter Salome. |
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