St. Anne's Church
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St. Anne's Church is located at the starting point of the Via Dolorosa, near the Lions’ Gate. The church was built near the remains of a Byzantine basilica, over the site of a grotto that was believed to be the birthplace of Anne, the Virgin Mary's mother.
At least the Crusaders believed this to be the spot. The Byzantine basilica was built over what had been a pagan shrine to either the Egyptian god Serapis or the Greek god Asclepius, both of them gods of healing, making it a natural association for the mother figure.
St. Anne's Church was one of the few to survive the destruction of the Mamelukes who conquered the land. In 1192, a year after occupying Jerusalem, Salah ad-Din converted the church into an Islamic seminar, which is deduced by the inscription on the building, "Salahiya," meaning "of Saladin." Christian pilgrims were required to pay a fee to enter during the Muslim rule of Palestine, and eventually the church was abandoned.
After subsequent neglect, it was restored in 1856 when the Ottoman Sultan Abdulmecid presented it as a gift to Napoleon III. The majority of what remains is from the original structure; today it is owned by the French government and administered by an order of the Catholic Church called the White Fathers. The order is named for the color of their robes. Of interest to pilgrims, the church is a neighbor of two other churches: Church of the Flagellation and the Church of Condemnation.
