Muristan
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The Muristan is a complex of streets and shops in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was the location of the Bimaristan built by Saladin adjacent to an older hospital built by the
The market area of the Muristan, Suq Aftimos, with the Muristan fountain at its centre
Godfrey of Bouillon, who endowed the hospital in the Muristan after the First Crusade, in a fresco in the Manta Castle
The Church of the Redeemer (Erlöserkirche), in 1900.
Stone of the memorial in Muristan Street, marking the location of the hospital of the Order of the Knights of St. John.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The church is simultaneously the seat
Muristan
…hospital built by the Knights Hospitaller. The name Muristan is derived from the Persian word Bimārestān, meaning "hospital". The area just south of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has a long tradition dating to the days of Judas Maccabeus in the 2nd century BC, based on incidents recorded in the Second Book of Maccabees. According…
The church in 2010, from left to right: the bell tower (12th century), rotunda (big dome), catholicon (smaller dome), and ambulatory
Crusader graffiti in the church: crosses engraved in the staircase leading down to the Chapel of Saint Helena
Eastern Orthodox icon (c. 1600) commemorating a church renovation
Floorplan in 1857