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The Church of the Pater Noster stands on the Mount of Olives, on the site where tradition says Jesus taught his disciples the Lord's Prayer (Luke 11, Matthew 6).
The name means Our Father in Latin.
The walls of the church and its cloister are covered with tiled panels of the Lord's Prayer written in more than a hundred and eighty languages, from Amharic to Chinese.
The Pater Noster is where the prayer that every Christian in the world knows was given by the Lord himself.
To walk the cloister and find the Our Father in your own language, among nearly two hundred others, is to feel the whole church praying as one family in every tongue. Pilgrims pause here to pray the words slowly, on the hill where they were first taught.
What is this church? The place honoured as where Jesus taught the Lord's Prayer.
Where is it? On the Mount of Olives.
What is special about it? The Lord's Prayer tiled on its walls in over 180 languages.
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