Travel | Flowers in Israel: Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem (The Christian Quarter)

German Lutheran Church of the Redeemer built on the foundations of the Crusader church Sainte Marie (11th century).The present church erected in 1898 on land granted as a gift by the Sultan to the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm, in 1869. The church was consegrated in 1898 by Kaiser Wilhelm II, during a visit to Jerusalem.