Jerusalem - Dominus Flevit

Some 200m/220yds up from the Church of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem, is the entrance to a Franciscan property with the chapel of Dominus Flevit ("The Lord wept"), built in 1955 on the foundations of a church of the fifth century (a mosaic from which can be seen to the left of the entrance). In a large window above the altar is the outline of a chalice. The name of the chapel refers to the occasion when Christ, going to Jerusalem for the last time, wept over the fate that awaited the city (Luke 19,41). During the construction of the chapel, in 1953, a number of Jewish and Byzantine graves were brought to light.