In an interview with Israeli television's Channel 2 on October 25, 2015, Muhammad Ahmad Hussein denied that the Temple Mount had ever housed any Jewish temple. The site, considered the third holiest in Sunni Islam and the holiest to Jews, according to the Grand Mufti, was a mosque 3,000 years ago, and 30,000 years ago and had been so since the creation of the world. Regarding the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which was founded by the caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab in the 7th century, the Mufti asserted that this is the Al-Aqsa Mosque that Adam, peace be upon him, or during his time, the angels built.