2-798-595 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Designed Protestant church on Mount Zion, 1845. 'For some time past, the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, have been sedulously labouring to complete the Church which they have commenced erecting at Jerusalem, but which, from various causes, has not been erected higher than six or seven feet above ground; although the depth underground, to the solid rock, on which the foundations are laid, in many places exceeds forty feet...The erection of a Church has since acquired additional importance from the need of a place of worship for the numbers of English and foreign Protestants who now frequent the Holy City...an English lady has undertaken to complete the Church, and endow it with an income of £100 per annum for a permanent minister, as well as to contribute the sum necessary to form a fund for keeping the Church in repair'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.