Monastery of the Cross in Wikipedia

The Monastery of the Cross (Georgian: ჯვრის მონასტერი, Hebrew: מנזר המצלבה‎ Minzar HaMatzlevah) is a monastery near the Nayot neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. It is located in the Valley of the Cross, below the Israel Museum and the Knesset. History The monastery was built in the 11th century, during the reign of King Bagrat IV by the Georgian Giorgi-Prokhore of Shavsheti. It is believed that the site was originally consecrated in the 4th century under the instruction of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great, who later gave the site to the Georgian King Mirian III of Iberia after the conversion of his country to Christianity in 327 A.D. [1] Legend has it that the monastery was erected on the burial spot of Adam's head - though two other locations in Jerusalem also claim this honor - from which grew the tree that gave its wood to the cross on which Christ was crucified.[2] The monastery is currently occupied by monks of the Jerusalem Patriarchate...