Reason for the name
Named after Salahaddin, who returned to the Copts after liberating Jerusalem from the Crusaders.
Builder
The Copts
History
The end of the nineteenth century.
Shape and details
The monastery contains two churches, one small called “Angel” and the other large called the “four animals”; The
monastery includes an ancient Egyptian wooden barrier, an ivory restaurant, and an area of 1800 square meters.
After the conquest of Jerusalem by the Franks, the Latins took over the monastery that was in the hands of the Copts, after the conquest of Jerusalem by Salahaddin, he returned it to them.
It is worth mentioning that the monastery dedicated to the monks, the nuns have built another monastery with the consent of the Ottoman Sultan near Bab al-Khalil called the “Monastery of St. George” The legitimate arguments of this monastery indicate that many excavations carried out during the 19th century, it noted that there is another monastery called Sultan Monastery. Its population of Christians and a Coptic monk has its keys, and this indicates that the Copts were a weak group, as they also lost a lot of their religious places from the seventeenth century
except a small monastery and the size attributed to them is located in The direction of Bab Al-Amoud is called “Deir Al- Janah (Monastery of Paradise)”.
As for visitors to the monastery, the Copts allocated another monastery to them in (1255 AH / 1839 AD) above the Khan that attached to their monastery, Monastery of the Sultan