For Roman Catholics. It is located between the gates of Hatta and Al-Asbat, i.e. north of Al-Aqsa Mosque. The place was originally a pagan temple, and the Byzantines built a church over it in the fifth century AD, considering it to be the house of Boakim and Henna, the father and mother of the Virgin Mary. Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi liberated Jerusalem in 1187 AD.

He established a school in the place to teach Shafi'i jurisprudence, and made it an endowment for the jurists of this school of thought and a link for the Sufis. p>

The Ottomans offered its land to the French in 1855 AD as a reward for their support against the Russians in the Crimean War in 1915, and with the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, the British restored it as a church in 1917 AD and added a museum and library to it. The church was destroyed during The Jews occupied Jerusalem in 1967 AD and it was restored.

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