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Dormition Abbey behind Greek Hagias Zion Convent. A monastic order known as the Abbey of Our Lady of Mount Zion was established at the site in the 12th century, with a church built on the ruins of the earlier demolished Byzantine church. [citation needed] The 12th century church was again destroyed in the 13th century, and the monks moved to ...
Derekh Ha'Apifyor (Pope's Way) leading up to Mount Zion, so named by the Israeli government in honor of Pope Paul VI's historic visit to Israel in 1964. Important sites on Mount Zion are Dormition Abbey, the Armenian Monastery of St. Saviour, King David's Tomb and the Room of the Last Supper.
Today, Mount Zion refers to a hill south of the Old City's Armenian Quarter, not to the Temple Mount. This apparent misidentification dates at least from the 1st century AD, when Josephus calls Jerusalem's Western Hill "Mount Zion". [25] The Abbey of the Dormition and King David's Tomb are located upon the hill currently called Mount Zion.
Another one is that the Holy Zion basilica was truly huge (it is the largest church depicted on the Madaba Map, and the architect of the Dormition Abbey concluded from his 1899 excavations that it measured 60 by 40 metres), making it is more likely that the walls at "David's Tomb" were part of the basilica. [7]
The compound is located on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, near the Christian Abbey of the Dormition. The compound is thought to be situated in what once was a ground floor corner of the Hagia Zion .
Articles relating to Mount Zion, a hill in Jerusalem, located just outside the walls of the Old City. ... Abbey of the Dormition; C. Mount Zion Cemetery, Jerusalem;
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Convent of the Sisters of Zion; Dominus Flevit Church; Dormition Abbey; Ecce Homo (church), part of the Convent of the Sisters of Zion; Garden of Gethsemane; Grotto of Gethsemane; St Anne's Church; St. Stephen's Basilica (Saint-Étienne) St. Thomas Church or Cathedral – Syriac Catholic; St. Vincent de Paul Chapel, Jerusalem; Via Dolorosa