This article is about the 6th century church in Jerusalem. For the namesake 9th century church in Constantinople, see Nea Ekklesia.
Remains of the Nea
The New Church of the Theotokos, or New Church of the Mother of God, was a Byzantine church erected in Jerusalem by Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565). Like the later Nea Ekklesia (Νέα Ἐκκλησία) in Constantinople, it is sometimes referred to in English as "the Nea" or the "Nea Church".
The church was completed in 543 but was severely damaged or destroyed during the Persian conquest of the city in 614. It was further used as a source of building material by the Umayyads a few decades later.[1] Meager remains of the once huge church were discovered at excavations in the Old City's Jewish Quarter, with the southeast corner slightly protruding outside the 16th-century city walls.[2]
^Ben-Dov (1977).
^Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome (2008). The Holy Land: An Oxford Archaeological Guide from Earliest Times to 1700. Oxford Archaeological Guides (5th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 19–20, 83–84. ISBN 9780199236664. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
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