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The Nea Church was a vast Byzantine basilica built by the emperor Justinian in 6th-century Jerusalem, on the southern edge of the Jewish Quarter. The posts here cover the church’s role in Byzantine Jerusalem, its disappearance after the Persian and Arab conquests, and the Crusader-era city that grew over its ruins.

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Damascus Gate, Jerusalem
Centre · Jerusalem

Roman and Byzantine Jerusalem

A field-trip day tracing the Roman and Byzantine layers of Jerusalem: Zedekiah's Cave by the Damascus Gate, the arches at Alexander Nevsky, the Byzantine corners of the Holy Sepulchre, the cardo, and the ruins of the Nea Church.

Dec 2013 · 3 minute read
Zedekiah's Cave, Jerusalem Damascus Gate, Jerusalem Roman or Byzantine arch in the Alexander Nevsky Church, Jerusalem Arches of Monomachos together with later crusader arches in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre The upper Byzantine cardo, Jerusalem Apse of the Nea Church
Crusader capital in the Last Supper Room (Cenacle)
Centre · Jerusalem

Crusader Jerusalem

A walk through the Old City focused on the Crusader century: the Cenacle on Mount Zion, the Nea Church, the German Knights' hospice, the Crusader market, the Church of the Redeemer and the Holy Sepulchre.

Jul 2013 · 5 minute read
Crusader capital in the Last Supper Room (Cenacle) Ruins of the Crusader Nea Church St Mary’s Hospice of the German Knights View over the Temple Mount and the Old City of Jerusalem The inimitable Bilal Abu Khalaf dons his traditional garb Crusader cloisters in the Church of the Redeemer Inside the cistern under the Coptic Church of St Helen Church of the Holy Sepulchre: site marking the creation of the world
Excavations of the outer western (the Kotel) and southern walls of the Second Temple Mount
Centre · Jerusalem

Jerusalem in the Second Temple period

A field trip through Jerusalem's Second Temple period sites: the City of David, the Tyropoeon valley drainage channel, the Davidson Centre, the Burnt House, the Wohl Museum of Archaeology, and the excavations beneath the Western and southern walls of the Temple Mount.

Jun 2013 · 5 minute read
Walking up the Roman drainage channel in the Tyropoeon valley Capital possibly from the second temple The Burnt House of the Katros family, Jerusalem The oldest mosaic in Israel in the Wohl Museum of Archaelogy, Jerusalem Mikve from the second temple period in the western wall excavations Herodian street from the second temple period
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