Church of Saint George (Lod)

The Church of Saint George ( Hebrew : כנסיית ג'ורג' הקדוש קוטל הדרקון) is the major shrine for the fourth century martyr Saint George (الخضر el-Khader in Arabic) and is located in Lod , Israel . The current church, built in 1870, shares space with the El-Chodr Mosque . Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem received permission from the Ottoman authorities to build a church on the site of a previous basilica. The church is built over an earlier 15th century AD structure, and occupies the north end of the nave and left-hand aisle of the earlier church, from which there survive two apses - which, contrary to the normal rule, face north rather than east. The Ottoman authorities stipulated, that part of the plot be made available for a mosque. Consequently the current Church of St. George incorporates only the northeast corner of the Byzantine basilica . The prayer hall of the adjacent mosque contains a column that once stood in the nave of the basilica. The church contains the sarcophagus of St George.

The Church of Saint George ( Hebrew : כנסיית גאורגיוס הקדוש קוטל הדרקון) is the major shrine for the fourth-century Christian martyr Saint George (الخضر Al-Khidr in Arabic) and is located in Lod , Israel . The current church, built in 1870, shares space with the El-Khidr Mosque . Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem received permission from the Ottoman authorities to build a church on the site of a previous basilica. The church is built over an earlier 15th century AD structure, and occupies the north end of the nave and left-hand aisle of the earlier church, from which there survive two apses - which, contrary to the normal rule, face north rather than east. The Ottoman authorities stipulated, that part of the plot be made available for a mosque. Consequently the current Church of St. George incorporates only the northeast corner of the Byzantine basilica . The prayer hall of the adjacent mosque contains a column that once stood in the nave of the basilica. The church contains the sarcophagus of St George.

Church of Saint George ( , Hebrew : כנסיית גאורגיוס הקדוש קוטל הדרקון) is one of the two major shrines for the fourth-century Christian martyr Saint George . The church is located in Lod , Israel . The current church, built in 1870, shares space with the El-Khidr Mosque (الخضر Al-Khidr , often associated with Saint George).

19th-century church in Israel For other uses, see St George's Church (disambiguation) . The Church of Saint George ( , , "Church of Saint George, slayer of the dragon") in the city of Lod is a Greek Orthodox church containing a sarcophagus venerated as the tomb of the fourth-century Christian martyr Saint George . The church sits adjacent to the Mosque of Al-Khadr . The church building is based on the partially rebuilt Crusader -period church, which had itself been built over part of the remains and footprint of the Byzantine-period predecessor. George and the Dragons: The Making of English Identity . In Lod and in Al-Khadr, shrines to St George consist of a single site where a church has been built alongside a mosque. The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem .