The Church of the Redeemer

It will probably surprise you, but this church in old Jerusalem was founded by the Emperor Charlemagne (742-814). It was restored 300 years later by a group of merchants who came from Amalfi (a port city in Italy) who admired its excellent structure. It was again renovated by the Crusaders in 1150. In 1869, Sultan Abed el-Aziz from Turkey, occupied Jerusalem, who wanted to please the German Crown Prince Frederik III, gave the lot of land with the ruins of the church to him. He asked an...