Jerusalem - Bethphage

From the Pater Noster Church in Jerusalem a side trip can be made to Bethphage (alt. 900m/2,950ft), a short distance east, with a church commemorating the tradition that this was the Biblical Bethphage, to which Christ sent his disciples to fetch the ass on which he rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday (Luke 19,29). The remains of a Crusader church were found here in 1876. In the 19th century Franciscan church is a stone from this church with interesting Early Gothic paintings.