Churches

Prophet Ibrahim Monastery

Located in the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, inside the walls of the Old Town in the Christian Quarter.

Built
335 CE
Built by
The first to be constructed believed to have been Queen Helena and she reconstructed it

Reason for the name

Named after prophet Ibrahim peace be upon him.

Builder

The first to be constructed believed to have been Queen Helena and she reconstructed it.

History

Dating back to the Roman era in Palestine, around 335 AD.

Shape and details

The monastery now houses two churches: the Church of Our Father Ibrahim, and the Church of the Twelve Apostles.

The monastery is an archeological monastery that dates back to the Greek Orthodox, it destroyed in 614 CE after the Persians occupied the city of Jerusalem, it destroyed until the Russians took it from the Turkish in 1887 and it renovated.

They gave part of it to the Romans, built their monastery and built the Russians in the other part monastery, which is located near the gate of Khan al-Zayt known Al-Mascobia.

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