Monastery and Catacombs Tour & Organ Concert - December 23rd
To Catholics, as well as many other Christians and Jews, the areas in the Middle East commonly called the Holy Land, are considered some of the most religiously significant historical areas in the world.
The Holy Land includes locations such as The Holy City – Jerusalem; the city where Jesus was born, Bethlehem on the West Bank; Nazareth, the city where Jesus grew up; and Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments.
About 700 years ago, the Roman Catholic Church assigned the responsibility and keeping of the Holy Land and its many shrines and religious sites to the Order of St. Francis.
The church established the first commissariat in 1333 in Naples. Since then, over 40 commissariats have been established, including one in Washington, DC.
The first U.S. commissariats, build in Northeast Washington, DC in 1898 is Mount St. Sepulchre. The building’s design is based on one of the greatest buildings in the world, the Byzantine-style Hagia Sophia (Church of Holy Wisdom) in Istanbul, Turkey (Constantinople).
You can take a tour of the church, monestary, shrines and chapels and well maintained gardens and grounds daily. Additionally, on December 23rd at noon, a 45-minute organ concert will be performed in the church.
Mount St. Sepulchre Franciscan Monastery, Church and Commissariat of the Holy Land
1400 Quincy Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20017
Hours
Grounds open for self-guided walks 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. daily.
Tours daily at 10:00, 11:00, 1:00, 2:00 and 3:00. Note: On Sundays, no tours at 10 or 11 a.m.
Admission is free
Nearest Metro subway station
Brookland/CUA station - Red line. Then a short Metro bus ride (H6 bus) or a 15 minute walk.
Photo credit: photo 4 flickr
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