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The Church of the Holy Archangels ( hy, Սրբոց Հրեշտակապետաց եկեղեցի, Srbots Hreštakapetats yekeğetsi), also known as Deir ez-Zeitun ( , "Monastery of the Olive Tree"), is an Armenian Orthodox Christian church in the Armenian Quarter of the

Old City Old City often refers to old town, the historic or original core of a city or town. Old City may refer to several places: Historical cities or regions of cities ''(by country)'' *Old City (Baku), Azerbaijan * Old City (Dhaka), Bangladesh, also ca ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

Traditions

According to a tradition, this site was the house of High Priest Annas, although earlier traditions also placed the house at different sites, such as on

Jehoshaphat Street The ''Via Dolorosa'' (Latin, 'Sorrowful Way', often translated 'Way of Suffering'; ar, طريق الآلام; Hebrew: ויה דולורוזה) is a processional route in the Old City of Jerusalem. It represents the path that Jesus would have ...

or on

Mount Zion Mount Zion ( he, הַר צִיּוֹן, ''Har Ṣīyyōn''; ar, جبل صهيون, ''Jabal Sahyoun'') is a hill in Jerusalem, located just outside the walls of the Old City (Jerusalem), Old City. The term Mount Zion has been used in the Hebrew ...

. One of the chambers supposedly was the prison of Christ. However, the gospels have divergent accounts about whether Jesus was brought to Annas' or Caiaphas' house/court. Therefore, the Armenian Monastery of Saint Saviour (the "House of Caiaphas") also has a prison of Christ.

History

The monastery was founded in the 12th or 13th century.. "origin for this church ��in opting for a date in the second half of the thirteenth �� Another opinion is that itwas probably built before 1187."

References

* * {{Jerusalem Old City Armenian Apostolic churches in Jerusalem