Language:
English
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
150,4 (2018) 309-319
Keywords:
Sabas,
;
Orthodoxos Ekklesia tes Hellados
;
Church buildings
Abstract:
For over a century the church that the Greek monks of Dayr Mar Saba are known to have possessed inside the walls of Jerusalem in the twelfth century has usually been associated with a chapel surviving inside the Disy family house opposite the police barracks south of the Citadel, while the Zāwiyyat al-Shaykh Yaʿqūb (Yaʿqūbiyya), on the east side of Christ Church, has been identified as having originally been built in the twelfth century, possibly by Monophysites, as a church dedicated to St James the Persian, or the ‘Cut-up’ (Intercisus). New documentary research, however, now makes it appear more likely that Mujīr al-Dīn was correct in attributing the building of the Yaʿqūbiyya to the Greeks and that it was also the church referred to by pilgrims in the twelfth century as that of St Sabas. This means that the identity of the church in Dār Disy, if indeed it was a church, remains to be determined.
DOI:
10.1080/00310328.2018.1537697
URL:
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