St. Anne's Church (Sepphoris)
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The St. Anne Church is the ruin of a church of the Crusaders in Sepphoris in today's Israel . Today it is looked after by the Custodia Terrae Sanctae of the Franciscans in the Holy Land.
history
St. Anne's Church was built by the Crusaders in the 12th century on the place where, according to tradition, the house of Mary's parents , St. Anne and her husband Joachim , was supposed to have been. It was a three-aisled basilica , of which the eastern parts built on a slope are still preserved today. The choir and the south aisle end with a semicircular apse . The sacristy is located behind the side apse. The north aisle does not close in an apse, but in a side chapel, the Gothic entrance arch of which is now walled up.
In 1641 the Ottoman government allowed pilgrims to visit the ruins of the church and to hold church services. In 1841 the Franciscans succeeded in purchasing the facility. However, local resistance did not allow the site to be taken over until 1870. The Franciscans built space on the Gothic arches of the apses in 1879 for the creation of a hospice and freed the nave of the dwellings that had been built there. In 1909, archaeological excavations revealed that the church is located above the foundation walls of a synagogue from the 4th century. A Byzantine church may have been built above it.
On the day of Saints Anna and Joachim on July 26, 2012, a mass was celebrated in the nave to celebrate the comprehensive renovation of the surrounding walls. The Roman Catholic sisters of St. Anna look after the ruins on site.
literature
- Denys Pringle: The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem . Volume 2 (L-Z), Cambridge 1998.
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Coordinates: 32 ° 45 ′ 14 " N , 35 ° 16 ′ 37.2" E