Monastery of St Saviour
East Jerusalem, Palestine · built 1882
The Monastery of Saint Saviour (Minzer San Salvador, Convento di San Salvatore) is a Franciscan monastery housing the headquarters of the Custody of the Holy Land and located on 1 Saint Francis Street, east of the New Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. The site was purchased from the Georgian Orthodox Church in 1560 with the permission of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire, and the monastery was constructed in stages. The church building was erected in 1885, with a renovation in 1985. The site includes a printing press, an organ workshop, a library and a Catholic school.
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