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Monastery of St. Marqs (Monastery of the Syrians / Monastery of St. Marqash)

Located in the southern part of the historic lane of the Jerusalem lanes, known as Hart Al Tabana, which dominated by the Syrians today spread.

Built by
Syriac Orthodox

Builder

Syriac Orthodox.

Shape and details

Originally, the monastery was a Byzantine church known as the Church of the Virgin, which still exists today. It also took the place of the diocese of the Syriac, and the Byzantine church destroyed from the days of the Fatimid period,

of the Fatimid Alhakem be amrellah of the fourth century AH (1009 AD), It abandoned until it restored in 1272 AH / 1855 AD, then expanded in 1298 AH (1880 AD).

References to him and to some Syrian monks and their other affairs mentioned in some of the arguments of the Shari’a Court of Jerusalem, and it believed that Christ held the Last Supper.

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    The Monastery of Saint Mark

    One of the properties of the Syriac Catholic group. It is 20 meters’ northeast of the Church of Saint Thomas. The Syriacs believe that Jesus Christ held his Last Supper in it.

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