Israel and You Spaces and Places in Israel
The name of this church recalls Jesus’ teaching of the Lord’s Prayer to his disciples. Steps below the altar lead down to the crypt of the 4th-century basilica, partially built in a cave with a 1st-century tomb.
The Lord’s Prayer appears in 140 languages different languages at the Church of the Pater Noster in the cave that forms the grotto under the church.
Administered by: Carmelite Sisters
Tel.: 972-2-6264904
Open: 8.30-noon, 2.30-4.30pm (Sunday closed).
An alternate site of Jesus’ teaching is at the site of the Chapel of the Ascension, located on the Mount of Olives, in the At-Tur district of Jerusalem.
The present church and its Carmelite Sisters cloister were completed in 1874 by Aurélie de Bossi, the Princess de la Tour d’Auvergne.
