Chapel of Notre Dame in West Jerusalem
Friday, 19 June 2020 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante General , Union for the Mediterranean
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The “Chapel of Our Lady of Jerusalem” (French: “Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Jérusalem”) or “Chapel of Notre Dame”, is a religious building affiliated with the
Catholic Church which is located in the “Complex of Notre Dame of Jerusalem” (formerly known as “Notre Dame de France”, or “Our Lady of France”) which was built by French religious between 1893 and 1894 in
West Jerusalem , as part of a larger group of buildings known as the “Hospice of Our Lady of France”, which was built mostly in stone with “defensive” purposes.
It was built in a symmetrical, neoclassical style, supplemented by Oriental style battlements on the roof and was completely renovated in the 1970s.
Chapel of Notre Dame de Jerusalem © deror_avi/cc-by-sa-3.0
French pilgrims financed the construction of the Complex. A group of 1000 French Catholics had no accommodation when they went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem as part of “Le Grand Caravan de Mille” in 1882. Consequently Marie Paul Amedee De Piellat collected the money to construct the Complex.
In 1948 Israeli military forces occupied the Chapel as a base to launch attacks in the
1947–1949 Palestine war (War of Independence/
The Nakba ). Since 1967, the Chapel is situated directly at the
City Line , which separates East from West Jerusalem and is part of the
Green Line , which is the only internationally recognized border between Israel and Palestine.
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