Deir Rafat
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Deir Rafat (Template:Langx, Template:Langx), also known as the Shrine of Our Lady Queen of Palestine and of the Holy Land, is a Catholic monastery in central Israel. Located to the north-west of Beit Shemesh, between Givat Shemesh and kibbutz Tzora to the south and Kfar Uria to the north, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In Template:Israel populations, it had a population of Template:Israel populations.Template:Israel populations
History
The monastery was established in 1927, under the then British Mandate of Palestine, by the Latin Patriarch Luigi Barlassina and contained a boarding school, an orphanage and convent. Currently the convent is running a guest house and a retreat center for believers and Holy Land pilgrims. The façade of the convent church bears the Latin inscription "Reginæ Palæstinæ", lit. "to the Queen of Palestine", and carries a 6-metre statue of the Virgin Mary. The church ceiling is decorated with a painting showing angels carrying banners with the first words of the Hail Mary prayer in 280 languages.[1][2] Since 2009, the convent is in the care of the female branch of the Catholic order known as "the Monastic Family of Bethlehem, of the Assumption of the Virgin and of Saint Bruno", called the monastic Sisters of Bethlehem.[1]
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Wooden doors with "Ave Maria" carving in different languages
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Church interior
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Deir Rafat
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Deir Rafat compound
References
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- ↑ a b Monastère Notre-Dame de Palestine: Deir Rafat Monastic Family of Bethlehem
- ↑ The Shrine of Our Lady "Queen of Palestine" and the Holy Land at Rafat Template:Webarchive LPJ
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External links
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: IAA, Wikimedia commons
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- Mateh Yehuda Regional Council
- Roman Catholic monasteries in Israel
- Catholicism in Israel
- Populated places established in 1927
- Christian monasteries established in the 20th century
- Populated places in Jerusalem District
- Buildings and structures in Jerusalem District
- 1927 establishments in Mandatory Palestine