The Monastery of St Onuphrius in Akeldama was built in 1874 over the remains of an earlier church building, is occupied by a small community of Greek Orthodox nuns.
It is dedicated to St. Onuphrius of Egypt who was famous for his luxuriant beard, which was his only garment apart from a loincloth of leaves.
The monastery chapel is in a former burial cave, with holes in the walls where bodies were laid. A 16th-century tradition says eight of the apostles hid here after Jesus was captured at Gethsemane.
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