Carmelite Monastery, Mount Carmel: Overall view, exterior of the domed shrine of Elijah's Cave
Date
Circa 1910
Location
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries
The Carmelite order was founded on Mount Carmel more than 800 years ago, starting from a number of Crusaders who went into seclusion in the caves on Mount Carmel, in imitation of the Prophet Elijah, who meditated in a cave here before defeating the priests of Baal. The 17th century monastery was destroyed by the Ottomans after Napoleon's siege of Acre and rebuilt 1827-1836. Elijah's Cave is in a separate domed shrine further down the slope and is sacred to Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Druze; at times it has been a mosque.
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