Ecce Homo Monastery has been operating in Jerusalem since the mid-nineteenth century. Sisters from the congregation of Our Lady from Mount Zion live in it. The monastery includes the Ecce Homo Basilica, residential buildings for the sisters and a pilgrim's house. Within the monastery, the remains of the Roman Hadrian's Arch and the former city tanker are visible.
The monastery is located on Via Dolorosa within the Old Town. He stands in the place where, according to the Bible, Pilate was to show the scourged Jesus to the people with the words "Here is a man." In 135, the Triumphal Arch of Emperor Hadrian stood in this place, in which in the 17th century two slabs were laid from the floor of the former fortress of Antonia, in which Jesus was scourged. Currently, this arch is included in the monastery building.
The monastery was founded in 1856 by Alfons Ratisbonne, a Jew who converted to Catholicism and joined the Jesuit order. Today's Ecce Homo basilica with a high dome and a neo-Roman interior was built at the end of the 19th century. In the altar apse there is a smaller passage of the Hadrian's Arch. The rest can be seen in the room that used to be a tank.
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