Church of the Pater Noster

Church of the Pater Noster
The church in 2009
Map
31°46′41″N 35°14′42″E / 31.7780°N 35.2449°E / 31.7780; 35.2449
LocationChristian Quarter, Old City of Jerusalem
DenominationCatholic
Religious instituteCarmelites
History
StatusActive
Founder(s)Constantine the Great (original basilica)
Aurélie de La Tour d'Auvergne (modern church)
Architecture
Architect(s)Marcel Favier
StyleRomanesque Revival
Groundbreakingearly 4th century
Specifications
MaterialsStone

The Church of the Pater Noster (French: Église du Pater Noster) is a Roman Catholic church located on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. It is part of a Carmelite monastery, also known as the Sanctuary of the Eleona (French: Domaine de l'Eleona). The Church of the Pater Noster stands right next to the ruins of the 4th-century Byzantine Church of Eleona. The ruins of the Eleona were rediscovered in the 20th century and its walls were partially rebuilt. Today, France claims ownership of the land on which both churches and the entire monastery are standing, under the Ottoman capitulations and further it claims the land as a French Domaine national français which has been formalised by the Fischer-Chauvel Agreement of 1948,[citation needed] though the agreement has not been ratified by Israel’s Knesset.


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