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South of the Ascension Chapel is the monastery containing the remains of the Constantinian Eleona Church and the 19th-century Church of the Pater Noster. The Russian Orthodox Convent of the Ascension, built in 1870, is located about 200 meters northeast of the chapel. [18] It now houses about 40 nuns. [19]
The Chapel of the Ascension is located in At-Tur. Located on the Mount of Olives, the chapel is part of a larger complex consisting first of a Christian church and monastery, then an Islamic mosque. It is located on a site which the Christian faithful traditionally believe to be the earthly spot where Jesus ascended into Heaven forty days after ...
Chapel of the Ascension (Jerusalem), at the site of the oldest Byzantine Church of the Ascension; now part of mosque; Russian Orthodox Church of the Ascension, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem; main church of the convent of the same name at At-Tur; Augusta Victoria Hospital, Jerusalem, which includes the German Protestant Ascension Church
Dome of the Ascension of Muhammad. The Dome of the Ascension (Arabic: قبة المعراج, romanized: Qubbat al-Miʿrāj; Hebrew: כִּיפָּת הַעֲלִיָּיה, romanized: Kippat Ha'Aliyah) is an Islamic free-standing domed structure built by the Umayyads that stands just north the Dome of the Rock on the al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem.
The modern Church of the Pater Noster is built right next to the site of a fourth-century basilica commissioned by Constantine I to commemorate the Ascension of Jesus.The latter was built under the direction of Constantine's mother Helena in the early 4th century, who named it the Church of the Disciples.
The Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Virgin, [1] also called Greek Catholic Melkite Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Virgin or simply Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation, [2] is a Melkite Greek Catholic cathedral located in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. [3] It is dedicated to the Annunciation.
The Status Quo (Hebrew: סטטוס קוו; Arabic: الوضع الراهن) is an understanding among religious communities with respect to nine shared religious sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. [1] Other holy places in Israel and Palestine were not deemed subject to the Status Quo, because the authorities of one religion or community within a ...
Chapel of the Virgin Mary (the "Coptic Chapel", or the "Chapel of the Copts"), Jerusalem Inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre complex, attached to the back of the shrine of the tomb of Christ. Convent and Church of Saint George the Roman, Jerusalem Near the Jaffa Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. The premise also includes St. Dimiana's ...