Dominus Flevit Church - Jerusalem, Israel - Wikipedia Entries on Waymarking.com

"Dominus Flevit is a Roman Catholic church on the Mount of Olives, opposite the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.

According to the 19th chapter of the Gospel of Luke, Jesus, while riding toward the city of Jerusalem, becomes overwhelmed by the beauty of the Second Temple and predicting its future destruction, and the diaspora of the Jewish people, weeps openly (an event known as Flevit super illam in Latin). (Luke 19:37–42)

The present church of Dominus Flevit is built upon the foundations of an earlier Byzantine church, which, like most churches, faced east. It was during the Crusader era that people began commemorating the location. After the fall of Jerusalem in 1187, the church fell into ruin.

Dominus Flevit Church is located on the western slope of the Mount of Olives, the church was designed and built between 1953 and 1955 by the Italian architect Antonio Barluzzi and is confidentially protected by the Franciscan measures of the Holy Land. Dominus Flevit, who translates from Latin as "The Lord wept," made a teardrop to symbolize the tears of Christ."
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