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Church of Maria Magdalene

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Church of Maria Magdalene
Mount of Olives and the Church of Mary Magdalene (center)
Basic information
Location	Jerusalem
Affiliation	Russian Orthodox
Architectural description
Year completed	1886

The Church of Mary Magdalene (Russian: Храм Марии Магдалины, Khram Marii Magdaline) is a Russian Orthodox church located on the Mount of Olives, near the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem.

History

The church is dedicated to Mary Magdalene (Miryam of Migdal), a follower of Jesus. According to the sixteenth chapter of the gospel of Mark, Mary Magdalene was the first to see Christ after his resurrection. (Mark 16:9) She is considered a crucial and important disciple of Jesus, and seemingly his primary female associate, along with Mary of Bethany, whom some believe to have been the same woman.^[1] The church was built in 1886 by Tsar Alexander III to honor his mother, Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. It was constructed to David Grimm's design in the traditional tented roof style popular in 16th and 17th century Russia, and includes seven distinctive, gilded onion domes. The convent is located directly across the Kidron Valley from the Temple Mount.

Relics

Buried in the church are the remains of two martyred Orthodox saints, the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia and her fellow nun Varvara Yakovleva,^[2]. Also interred there is Princess Alice of Greece, who was the Grand Duchess's niece, the mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II and a rescuer of Jews during the Nazi occupation of Greece.

External links

• Virtual Tour of inside Church of Maria Magdalene
• Virtual Tour of Jerusalem @ jerusalem360.com - Interactive Panoramas from Israel
• Russian Ecclestiastical Mission in Jerusalem - Official church webpage. More data, photos

Detail of facade

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References

1. ↑ Jansen, Katherine Ludwig, The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages, 2000.
2. ↑ Portrait of a Duke, Tom Segev, Haaretz

Coordinates: 31°46′44″N 35°14′28″E / 31.77889°N 35.24111°E / 31.77889; 35.24111

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