Location relative to Al-Aqsa
Located in the Christian Quarter, north of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
Reason for the name
Named after the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox, who has been living there since 1846.
The library’s archives belong to a collection of libraries, including the library of the Dir Mar Saba, the library of Dir Al-Maslaba of the Al Qbr Muqadas, which annexed to some in 1856, the library is one of the richest libraries in Jerusalem, with 2400 manuscripts.
11 Language, Syriac and Arabic languages, three-quarters of these manuscripts are written in Greek, there are 1800 Greek manuscripts, most of the manuscripts were written between the 5th and 18th centuries, the value of these manuscripts is only allowed by the Patriarch or his assistant.
Among the most important archives of the library are the covenant given by the Prophet Muhammad to all monks and Christians.
Al Ohda Al-Omarya, the reign of Muawiyah bin Abi Sufyan, and the confirmation of the Al Ohda Al-Omarya by Sultan Selim al-Othmani and other documents confirming the privileges of the Romans In 1897.
The Greek documentary “Papadopoulos Keramius” published in a four-volume book called “The Selection of Jerusalem Documents”.
These documents cover a long period from the Byzantine period to the Ottoman period, and it contains an index of hundreds of documents Arabic and Turkish.
History
451 AD.