Church of the Holy Forefathers and Monastery of the Holy Trinity

Church in Hebron, Palestine

31°31′59″N 35°06′00″E / 31.533°N 35.100°E / 31.533; 35.100

The Church of the Holy Forefathers and Monastery of the Holy Trinity (Russian: храм св. Праотцев и Троицкий монастырь), also known as Al Maskobiya (Arabic: كنيسة المسكوبية), is a Russian Orthodox monastery and church in Hebron, Palestine, founded in the 20th century on the site of the ancient Oak of Mamre.

The lands were acquired by Archimandrite Antonin (Kapustin) for the Russian Church in the 19th century and later expanded. It was held by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) until 1997, when Palestinian authorities turned the compound over to the Moscow-based Russian Orthodox Church. Ownership disputes continue, although the ROCOR in 2007 restored its ties as a semi-autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church.

It is located approximately 4 km to the southwest of Haram al-Ramat Mamre, the site of another "oak of Abraham" described by Josephus, surrounded with an enclosure by Herod the Great, and where Constantine the Great built a basilica in the 4th century.

References

"Map of Hebron region produced by the Survey of Palestine, showing the compound 'El Moskobiya'". The National Library of Israel, Eran Laor Cartographic collection. 1945.
Jabali, Fuad (2014-03-30). "Irsā al-Usus al-'Ilmīyah li al-Dirāsat al-Islāmīyah: al-Taṭawwur al-Akādīmī li al-Jāmi'at al-Islāmīyah al-Ḥukūmīyah wa al-Ma'āhid al-Islāmīyah al-Ḥukūmīyah al-'Ulyā bi Indūnīsīyā". Studia Islamika. 9 (2). doi:10.15408/sdi.v9i2.668. ISSN 2355-6145.
"Hebron's only church keeps the faith in turbulent city". Your Middle East. 2016-01-17. Archived from the original on 2019-12-19. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
Nofal, Aziza (2019-01-04). "Hebron's only Orthodox church quiet on Christmas". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
Schmemann, Serge (1997-07-11). "Arafat Enters Into a New Fray, Over a Russian Church". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
"فيديو- العدل العليا تلغي قرار الرئيس بمنح المسكوبية للبعثة الروسية". وكـالـة مـعـا الاخـبـارية (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-06-10.

External links

Троицкий монастырь и храм св. Праотцев в Хевроне - a report in LiveJournal.
Holy Land Pilgrimage video of tour to church

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