Dormition Abbey
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"Cette magnifique abbaye a été bâtie sur le lieu supposé du décès de la Vierge Marie. C'est sur cette colline que se trouve également le Cénotaphe, où aurait eu lieu le dernier repas du Christ, ainsi que le tombeau du célèbre roi David."

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"Marking the place where Roman Catholics believe the Virgin Mary fell asleep for the last time, the Dormition Church was built for German Catholics between 1901 and 1910, and is owned by the German Benedictine Order. The Turkish sultan dedicated the land to Kaiser Wilhelm II upon his visit to Jerusalem in 1898. The prominent landmark is situated on Mount Zion, in the southern part of Jerusalem's Old City. Built in a Romanesque style, the church resembles a fortress, topped with a towering domed clock tower, a gray conical roof, and four turrets. The design, meant to replicate Charlemagne's Aachen Cathedral in western Germany, was based on plans by Heinrich Renard, the architect for the archdiocese of Cologne. The central attraction of the church is the Chapel of the Dormition, which is home to a life-sized statue of a sleeping Mary. The crypt contains a mosaic in the dome above the statue, of Christ receiving her soul, surrounded by the biblical women Eve, Sarah, Miriam, Esther, Yael, and Judith. The mosaics provide some of the most striking features of the church. The mosaic pavement in the main chapel symbolizes the Holy Trinity, depicting three intersecting circles, and is surrounded by further tributes to Christianity including the names of the prophets Daniel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekial, and those of the twelve Apostles. This mosaic is surrounded by twelve zodiac signs. The church is bordered by significant Christian sites, including the "Room of the Last Supper" and the tomb of David-although most now arque that he never lay there. During the 1948 and 1967 battles over Jerusalem, the church was damaged and parts of the building have never been restored. Every two years the church presents the Mount Zion Award to people who have contributed to Christian-Muslim-Jewish dialogue."

@nchavotier

"Open 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. free Abbey of the Dormition is an abbey ( Catholic or, more recently, Anglican, monastery or convent, under the authority of an Abbot or an Abbess) and the name of a Benedictine community in Jerusalem on Mt. Zion just outside the walls of the Old City near the Zion Gate.During his visit to Jerusalem in 1898 for the dedication of the Protestant Church of the Redeemer, Kaiser Wilhelm II bought this piece of land on Mount Zion.The complex was built in the beginning of the 20th C over the ruins of a Byzantine church. It is also called Hagia-Maria-Sion Abbey, named after the Byzantine church.According to local tradition, it was on this spot, near the site of the Last Supper, that the Blessed Virgin Mary died, or at least ended her worldly existence. In Orthodoxy and Catholicism, as in the language of scripture, death is often called a “sleeping” or “falling asleep”, and this gave the original monastery its name.In 1948, during the Independence war, the Dormition was damaged by shelling during the bloody battles on Mount Zion. Repairs were paid for by the state of Israel. The floor mosaic of the upper church, can be read as a kind of confession of faith and story of creation: The light of the triune God, his truth and wisdom is carried out into the world by the greater and the lesser prophets and the apostles and evangelists. Additional bands are formed around the center until finally the ends of the earth are reached – graphically and in letters presented as the names of the twelve months and the twelve signs of the zodiac.Around the walls are 6 side chapels which are decorated by mosaics, and are one of the highlights of the site.The crypt is a round pillared room (“Rotunda”), which is located in a level under the church. In the center of the crypt, surrounded by six pillars, is a sculpture of Mary’s deathbed, made of ivory and cherrywood.On the ceiling of the cape above Mary are Jesus (in the center) surrounded by famous Biblical women figures: Eve, Esther, Ruth, Yael, Judith and Mary sister of Moses; they are here to honor Mary."

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