St. Helena Church belongs to the Armenian Church. According to one version, the Armenians purchased this place from the Copts. Another sources pints that the site was purchased from the Georgian Church. Either way, the church was built by the Crusaders. There was once a Byzantine church that had nothing left of it after the persecution of Christians by the Arab ruler al-Hakim in the 11th century AD. This act was the official reason for the crusade. According to tradition, the ancient church led to an old reservoir in which St. Helena found the remains of the cross on which Jesus was crucified.
The trip takes us from the Jaffa Gate through the Christian Quarter to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. After that, we will visit Golgotha, the stone of anointing, burial, and resurrection, St. Helena Chapel - the site where the Holy cross was found. Further, the route passes through Muristan to the Jewish Quarter, Kardo Street, excavations of the walls of Jerusalem from the time of Jesus, the mosaic of Madaba, the Hurva Synagogue, the Menorah, the panorama of the Olive and Temple Mountains, the Wailing Wall. Finally, we return to the Jaffa Gate through the Muslim Quarter, the monuments of the Mamluk architecture, and the street of David.
