The Church of the Pater Noster is built on the traditional site where Jesus taught his disciples the Lord's Prayer. Constantine built a church to commemorate the words of Jesus concerning the destruction of Jerusalem and His last coming. Constantine's church was destroyed in 614 by the Persians and rebuilt in the 12th century by the Crusaders. After the defeat of the Crusaders, the church was destroyed and the site was occupied by Muslims. In 1868, Princess Arelia de Bossi de la Tour d' Auvergne bought the site and donated it to France. I 1875 she built a convent for the order of Carmelite Nuns. Inside the church and on the walls of the cloister, the Lord's Prayer is written in 62 languages.
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