Deir Rafat

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This article is about the monastery. For the depopulated Palestinian Arab village located 2 km east, see Dayr Rafat.
Deir Rafat
<templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />דיר ראפאת‎
دير رفات
Deir Rafat is located in Jerusalem, Israel
Deir Rafat
Deir Rafat
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District Jerusalem
Council Mateh Yehuda
Affiliation Catholic Church, monastic Family of Bethlehem, of the Assumption of the Virgin and of Saint Bruno
Founded 1927
Founded by Luigi Barlassina
Population (2011) 66

Deir Rafat (Arabic: دير رفات‎‎, Hebrew: דיר ראפאת‎) is a former Palestinian Arab village in central Israel, 26 kilometers west of Jerusalem, and the seat of a Catholic monastery, the Shrine of Our Lady Queen of Palestine and of the Holy Land, known in French as Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Palestine – Beit Shemesh. The monastery was established in 1927 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 facade of the convent church bears the Latin inscription "Reginae Palaestinae", 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.[3]

Located to the northwest of Beit Shemesh, between Givat Shemesh and kibbutz Tzora to the south and Kfar Uria to the north, Deir Rafat falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2011, it had a population of 66.[4] It

Gallery

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    The monastery

  • Deir Rafat doors.jpg

    The doors with "Ave Maria" in many languages

  • PC160010.JPG

    Inside the monastery

  • PC160001.JPG

    Prayer book

References

  1. ↑ http://english.bethleem.org/monasteres/deirrafat.php
  2. ↑ http://www.lpj.org/newsite2006/news/2006/08/deir-rafat-eng.pdf
  3. ↑ http://english.bethleem.org/monasteres/deirrafat.php
  4. ↑ Population by settlement Central Bureau of Statistics

Bibliography

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