Saint Saviours Church
The Monastery of Saint Saviour is a Franciscan monastery housing the headquarters of the Custody of the Holy Land and located on 1 Saint Francis Street, east of the New Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem.Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Catholic
- Description: Catholic Franciscan monastery in Jerusalem
- Also known as: “Monastery of Saint Saviour”, “Monastery of St Saviour”, “St Saviour’s Monastery”, and “St Saviour’s Monastery, Jerusalem”
- Address: Jerusalem
- Roof shape: hipped
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of the Holy Sepulchre and New Gate.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church
New Gate
Photo: Daniel Baránek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The New Gate is the newest of the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was built in 1889 by the Ottomans under the directorship of the French consul and Franciscan brotherhood monkship order to provide direct access between the Christian Quarter and the new neighborhoods then going up outside the walls. New Gate is situated 120 metres west of Saint Saviours Church.
Jaffa Gate
City gate
Photo: Hreid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jaffa Gate is one of the seven main open gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. The name Jaffa Gate is currently used for both the historical Ottoman gate from 1538, and for the wide gap in the city wall adjacent to it to the south. Jaffa Gate is situated 270 metres south of Saint Saviours Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jerusalem and Christian Quarter.
Jerusalem
Photo: Aniacra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jerusalem is the largest city of Israel. Israel claims it as its capital and a few countries including the United States recognize that claim, but most other countries and the United Nations do not.
Christian Quarter
Neighborhood
Photo: Ghaly, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Christian Quarter is one of the four quarters of the walled Old City of Jerusalem, the other three being the Jewish Quarter, the Muslim Quarter and the Armenian Quarter.
Musrara
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Musrara is a formerly Ottoman neighborhood in what is now West Jerusalem. It is bordered by the Israeli neighborhoods of Mea Shearim and Beit Yisrael to the north, by the Russian Compound and Kikar Safra to the west, and by Mamilla mall to the south, and the Old City to the east.
Saint Saviours Church
- Categories: friary, monastery, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.77901° or 31° 46′ 44″ northLongitude
35.22739° or 35° 13′ 39″ eastInception
1885Open location code
8G3QQ6HG+JXOpenStreetMap ID
way 106249447OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=catholicOpenStreetMap attribute
roof-shape=hippedWikidata ID
Q997715
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Saint Saviours Church” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دير القديس المخلص”
- Arabic: “دير المخلص”
- Arabic: “كنيسة القديس المخلص”
- Breton: “Iliz Sant Salver”
- Chinese: “圣救主修道院”
- Czech: “svatý Spasitel”
- German: “Salvatorkirche”
- Hebrew: “מנזר סן סלוודור”
- Hungarian: “Szent Megváltó-kolostor”
- Indonesian: “Biara Penyelamat Kudus”
- Italian: “Convento di San Salvatore”
- Japanese: “聖救世主修道院”
- Polish: “Klasztor Najświętszego Zbawiciela w Jerozolimie”
- Romanian: “Mănăstirea franciscană „Saint Saviour””
- Spanish: “Monasterio de San Salvador”
- Urdu: “خانقاہ مقدس مخلص”
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