Church of Mary Magdalene

For other uses, see St. Mary Magdalene's Church (disambiguation).
Church of Mary Magdalene
Church of Mary Magdalene
Religion
AffiliationOrthodox Christian
Year consecrated1888
Location
LocationJerusalem
Architecture
Architect(s)David Grimm
StyleRussian Revival architecture
Completed1888
View towards the Temple Mount and other Jerusalem landscape.
Entrance to the Church

The Church of Mary Magdalene (Russian: Церковь Святой Марии Магдалины; Arabic: كنيسة القديسة مريم المجدلية; Hebrew: כנסיית מריה מגדלנה) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian church located on the Mount of Olives, directly across the Kidron Valley and near the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem.

The church, dedicated to Mary Magdalene, is part of the Convent of St. Mary Magdalene, a sisterhood established in 1936 by an English convert, and since the 1920s has been under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), an independent ecclesiastical entity until 2007 and part of the Moscow-based Russian Orthodox Church since then.[1]

  1. ^ "Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene - The Garden of Gethsemane". Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem. Archived from the original on 25 July 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)