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Deir El-Sultan

Jerusalem, Italy

Deir El-Sultan

Deir es-Sultan, literally the Monastery of the Sultan (Arabic: دير السلطان, romanized: Deir al-Sultan), is an Oriental Orthodox monastery located on the roof of the Chapel of Saint Helena, which is part of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. The Status Quo, a 250-year old under

standing between religious communities, applies to the site. Ownership of the monastery is disputed between two churches of the Oriental Orthodox communion, the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

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