The Russian Orthodox Convent of the Ascension is located in the village of A-Tur on Mount of Olives. According to Orthodox tradition is the site where Jesus ascended to heaven 40 days after resurrection.
The façade and the main entrance. The cross-shaped church is surmounted by a dome containing a striking representation of the Ascension. Stains on flagstones from an earlier Byzantine church are believed to be the blood of nuns slain during the Persian invasion of 614 CE.
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Entrance to the chapel of St. John's head, the chapel built on the site where the head of John the Baptist is said to have been found. In the 4th century John is said to have appeared in a dream to two Syrian monks who had come to Jerusalem as pilgrims, showing them where his head was buried. Helena, the mother of the emperor Constantine, was in Jerusalem at the time and ordered a chapel to be built on the spot. The present chapel has a Byzantine mosaic floor with a hollow said to mark the place where the head was discovered.
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