Ecce Homo Basilica

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Chancel of the Ecce Homo Basilica

The Ecce Homo Basilica is a Christian basilica- type church in the old city of Jerusalem that is named after the Ecce Homo motif. It is on the way that Jesus took to the crucifixion site according to tradition. The name Ecce homo is the Latin translation of a sentence from the Gospel of John , chapter 19, verse 5.

The church and the associated monastery Notre Dame de Sion go back to the founding of the French Father Alphonse Ratisbonne . He was a Jew born in Strasbourg in 1814 who converted to Catholicism , was ordained a priest and founded the Order of the Sisters of Sion . In 1857 he bought the rubble site on Hadrian's Arch and commissioned the architects Honoré Daumet and Christophe Edouard Mauss (1829–1914) to build the monastery and the church. Both were completed and consecrated in 1864.

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Individual evidence

  1. Dan Bahat, Jerusalem: 4000 years of history of the Holy City [Carta's historical atlas of Jerusalem; German], Margit Yehoschua (ex.), Marburg an der Lahn: Francke, 1985, (= Edition C: Present; No. 46), p. 37. ISBN 3-88224-416-X

Coordinates: 31 ° 46 ′ 49 ″  N , 35 ° 13 ′ 58.2 ″  E