Jerusalem (Old city) - ANASTASIS; HOLY SEPULCHRE Monastery

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Monastery name, type, category

Site Name:

Jerusalem (Old city)

Monastery name:

ANASTASIS; HOLY SEPULCHRE Monastery

Monastery type:

Cenobium

Monastery category:

Urban

Source of sacredness:

New Testament site

Sacred Objects

Location

Coordinates, ITM system:

221,849.00

631,756.00

Coordinates, ICS system:

171,845.00

131,755.00

Geographical region:

Jerusalem (Old City)

Provincial affiliation:

Palaestina I

Bishopric:

Jerusalem

Topographical location:

Level ground

Source of knowledge

HideLiterary sources

Text number	Summary
1	Mention of Cyriacus, priest and abbot of the church of the Holy Resurrection and a Warden of the Cross, AD 490.
2	Patriarch Elias of Jerusalem builds a monastery near the episcopal palace for the attendants of the Church of the Resurrection, from which Sabas later buys cells for two hostels for his laura, ca. AD 494.
3	Mention of Longinus, a Cappadocian elder in the community of attendants of the Church of the Holy Resurrection, ca. AD 455.
4	Theodore, a monk from the the Spoudaion of the Holy Resurrection, plots to usurp the patriarch of Jerusalem, from a late 8th cent. life of Stephanus written by his disciple.
5	Inventory of the clergy and monks employed in the complex of the Holy Sepulchre, from an official report ordered in AD 808.

Archaeological remains

Bibliograpy:

Petrides, S., 1901	221-235
Patrich, J. , 2016	139-61

Abbreviation for Journals and Series

State of certainty:

Literarily definitive

General description

State of preservation/which parts were uncovered:

No remains of the monastery of the "spudaioi" that was attached to the Church of the Anastasis have been identified. It is known from the literary sources only.

General description

Churche/s:

For a full description of the church see Churches section.

Small finds

Comments, discussion and summary:

For the bibliography concerning the church of the Holy Sepulchre. see the Church section.

Detailed description

Components

Monastery church:

Church type	Diakonikon	Link to church section	Church location
basilical			Ground floor

Baptismal font

Architectural evolution

Phase 1
Abandonment

General outline:

The monastic presence in the Church of the Anastasis (Holy sepulchre) is known from the literary sources as the abbots were important personages. No remains have been excavated revealing the nature of the monastery itself. It was founded in 494 by Patriarch Elias. A monastic presence continues at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre up to the present day albeit with changing orders of monasticism in accordance with historical events.

Dating material:

Literary

Phase date

Century:

5th c.

Within century:

Late

General outline:

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre-Anastasis has been in use since its foundation in the fourth century CE. The monastic presence at the church is known from the third quarter of the fourth century through the writings of the pilgrim Egeria. It is most likely that the monastic presence at the church continued without interruption but it is not known when the early monastery of the "Spudaioi" of the Byzantine period was abandoned in favor of a different monastic presence.

Phase date

Century:

Other

In continuous use