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Jerusalem: Church of Our Lady of Mt. Zion

Jerusalem: Church of Our Lady of Mt. Zion

Jerusalem. Mount Zion lies In the southwest of the Old City, outside the city wall built by Suleiman the Magnificent. It is a hill mentioned over 150 times in the Old Testament, which houses sites sacred to the three monotheistic religions. Tradition, based on Acts 2:1–4, places here the Miracle of the Oaths, when the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke many tongues. The first church on Mt. Zion, the Church of Holy Zion, was built by the Emperor Constantine the Great in the 4th century A.D. On its ruins the Crusaders, in the 12th century, built the Church of Our Lady of Mount Zion. The Coenaculum, the room of the Last Supper, is in the upper gallery. The arches emerging from the capitals on the sculpted columns are an example of Crusader building art.

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