Church of the Flagellation

The Church of the Flagellation is a Roman Catholic church and Christian pilgrimage site located in the of the Old City of , near .
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Roman Catholic
  • Description: Catholic church building
  • Address: Jerusalem

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dome of the Rock and Terra Sancta Museum.

Place of worship
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The is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the in the . It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, the earliest archaeologically-attested religious structure to be built by a Muslim ruler and contains the earliest inscriptions proclaiming Islam and the prophet Muhammad. is situated 290 metres south of Church of the Flagellation.

Museum
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The is a network of museums managed by the and located in the of . It originated from the first "Museum of the Franciscan Fathers" opened in 1902 to exhibit the results of archaeological excavations conducted in the by the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum.

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The is referred to in John's Gospel in the Christian New Testament, in an account of Jesus healing a paralyzed man at a pool of water in , described as being near the Sheep Gate and surrounded by five covered colonnades or porticoes. is situated 200 metres northeast of Church of the Flagellation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Muslim Quarter and Old City.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four sectors of the ancient, walled . It covers 31 hectares of the northeastern sector of the Old City.

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The of Jerusalem is that part of surrounded by the impressive 16th-century Ottoman city walls and representing the heart of the city both historically and spiritually.

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is the part of Jerusalem that belongs to the Palestinian territories. The walled is formally part of it, but is discussed in its own article.

Church of the Flagellation

Latitude
31.78047° or 31° 46′ 50″ north
Longitude
35.2342° or 35° 14′ 3″ east
Open location code
8G3QQ6JM+5M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 744674450
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­roman_catholic
Wiki­data ID
Q1499131
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Church of the Flagellation” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كنيسة الجلد”
  • Chinese: “鞭打堂”
  • Chinese: “鞭笞堂”
  • Czech: “Kostel Bičování Krista”
  • Czech: “Kostel Bičování”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسة الجلد”
  • French: “église de la Flagellation”
  • French: “Église de la Flagellation”
  • German: “Geisselungskapelle”
  • German: “Geißelungskapelle”
  • German: “Kapelle von der Ohnmacht Unserer Lieben Frau”
  • German: “Kirche der Geisselung”
  • Hebrew: “קפלת ההלקאה”
  • Hungarian: “Megostorozás temploma”
  • Indonesian: “Gereja Pencambukan”
  • Italian: “chiesa della Flagellazione”
  • Italian: “Chiesa della Flagellazione”
  • Japanese: “鞭打ちの教会”
  • Latin: “ecclesia Flagellatione”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Flagellasjonskapellet”
  • Norwegian: “Flagellasjonskapellet”
  • Polish: “Kościół Biczowania”
  • Russian: “Церковь Бичевания”
  • Spanish: “iglesia de la Flagelacion”
  • Spanish: “iglesia de la Flagelación”
  • Spanish: “Iglesia de la Flagelación”
  • Tamil: “கசையடித் தண்டனை தேவாலயம்”
  • Ukrainian: “Церква бичування”
  • Western Frisian: “Tsjerke fan de Giseling”

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