ETHIOPIAN MONASTERY OF DEIR ES-SULTAN
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In the superior court of the Holy Sepulchre, overlooking St. Helena Chapel, the site of Deir es Sultan is located. This site occupied by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church was originally called Deir el-Malak (the Angel monastery). It was confiscated from the Copts by the Crusaders and then handed over by Saladin in 1187. He then took the new name that means "the Sultan Monastery." In the th century, following the wars between Brother and Abyssinia, the Ethiopian community of Palestine was expelled from the Holy Sepulchre to which it had access and settled in two outer chapels shared with the Copts. In 1890, the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II granted the Ethiopian community the right to install a rooftop camp, initially to celebrate Easter. Today, the Ethiopian community remains excluded from the interior of the Holy Sepulchre and has only a few rooms and premises here. In the middle of the courtyard of what some of the similar to a village, a cupola allows to illuminate the chapel of St. Helena under the feet of visitors. You are afraid to reach the 9 th Via Dolorossa station by a small door of the courtyard or descend the stairs which lead two levels lower on the of the Holy Sepulchre.
