Church of the Pater Noster

About Church of the Pater Noster

Church in Jerusalem

The Church of the Pater Noster, historically the Sanctuary of the Eleona, is a Catholic church on the Mount of Olives in Al-Quds, part of a monastery of cloistered Carmelite nuns. It stands over a grotto where, according to Christian tradition, Jesus taught his disciples the Lord's Prayer, the "Our Father" that gives the church its Latin name. Beside the modern church lie the ruins of the fourth-century Byzantine Church of the Eleona, built in the age of Constantine, rediscovered in the twentieth century and partly rebuilt. What most visitors come for, however, are the glazed tile panels that line the cloister and passages, each inscribed with the Lord's Prayer in a different language; there are now more than 130 of them, Arabic among them. The grounds are quiet and shaded, a restful stop on the chain of Mount of Olives shrines between the Chapel of the Ascension above and Dominus Flevit and the Garden of Gethsemane below.

Where:

Jerusalem, Palestine