Dormition Abbey

The Dormition Church (actually: Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Beatae Virginis - Hagia Maria Sion ) is a Roman Catholic church on Mount Zion, just south of the walled Old City of Jerusalem.

At this location in the vicinity of the Upper Room, the Virgin Mary said to have died in the circle of Jesus' disciples in the old tradition; hence the name of the Dormition of Mary ( " Mary's Dormition " ), which is also an old name of the feast of the Assumption.

On the site of the Byzantine basilica of Hagia Sion was already in the 5th century ( "Holy Zion " ), which was destroyed by the Persian King Khosrau II 614.

In the 12th century the Crusaders built on the ruins of a church under the name of Sancta Maria in Monte Sion, which was destroyed after the defeat of the Crusaders in 1200 by the Muslim rulers.

During his visit to the Holy Land In 1898 Kaiser Wilhelm II, the land and gave it to the German Association of the Holy Land for the use of the German Catholics. In the following years, according to plans of the Cologne Diocese master Heinrich Renard the Dormition church and a monastery, today's Abbey Dormition Beatae Mariae Virginis, moved into the German Benedictines. The church was consecrated on 10 April 1910.

In a four-part tower bells in the beat tones cis1, e1, f k1 and gk1, which is tuned to the bells of the Church of the Redeemer hangs.

From the entrance of the Upper Room from

Apse of the Church

Virgin Mary in the crypt of the Church