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This area is now an Area under Planning, and any interventions are forbidden until the adoption the conservation and management plan and the bylaws that are currently being prepared by CCHP in cooperation with Bethlehem Municipality and MoTA.

A Management Plan will be developed for the overall property by the Committee set up to oversee the roof repairs and this should define an overall management system for the property.

This Plan needs to address the urban pressure on the property, tourism and traffic management, protection of views, and the conservation of buildings along the pilgrimage route. The Plan also needs to address the better management of visitors, as the provision of facilities for visitors are impacting adversely on the fabric of the surrounding town. The municipality of Bethlehem and the Centre for Cultural Heritage Preservation in Bethlehem, in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Ministry of Local Government are working on preparing conservation and management plans for the historic town of Bethlehem.

The works are being implanted under the Heritage For Development Project, which is being funded by the European Commission, are expected to finish in December ; upon the completion of the works a conservation plan for the historic town of Bethlehem that includes bylaws for intervention within the historic town, a management plan for the historic town and a manual for interventions shall be at indorsed by Bethlehem municipality.

In addition, the team of the municipality is involved in the planning process, and is expected to have the full capacity for the handling of the outputs of the project. About us. Special themes. Major programmes. For the Press. Help preserve sites now! Join the , Members.

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Without With. The cave was made the center of a scheme for the church and work began the following year AD. Toward the end of the 4th century, Bethlehem became a very important center of monastic life.

In AD St. Jerome arrived from Rome with a group of pilgrims. He came to Bethlehem to continue his work in the atmosphere of monastic life. He devoted himself to the tremendous task with which Pope St.

Damasus had entrusted him, namely to review all old Latin translations of the Bible and produce a new version, the Vulgate, based on original Hebrew and Greek texts. Two Roman ladies of noble origin, St. Paula and her daughter Eustochium moved to Bethlehem in to lead an ascetic life along with St. They founded the earliest monastic community in Bethlehem which has lasted, with some interruption, to this day.

Paula used her riches to build a hospice for pilgrims and two monasteries, one for St. Jerome and his followers, and the other for herself and the nuns. When the Roman empire was divided in into two empires, eastern and western, Palestine was attached to Byzantium, the eastern part. In the following years the life of the Latin-speaking communities of Bethlehem faded from view, eclipsed by the growth and more spectacular austerities of an eastern monasticism.

As a result, the town of Bethlehem prospered and its population increased with the spread of churches, monasteries, and convents in Bethlehem itself, and the surrounding areas. Under his reign Palestine witnessed a time of prosperity and expansion for its churches and for monasticism.

Afterwards, in , the Samaritans rebelled against the Byzantine state and overran the country, plundering and destroying as they went. Churches and monasteries, towns and villages were all pillaged or gutted by fire. The walls of Bethlehem and its main church were destroyed. The revolt was soon quelled. At the same time the church was rebuilt in a grand style. The town wall and the defenses of the monasteries were repaired.

A few years later the country was invaded by the Persians. According to an oral tradition, they did not cause any damage to the Church of the Nativity because they saw the pictures of the three Magi dressed as Persians, carrying gifts to Christ at his birth. Then, olive trees. This lifestyle gave them enough free time to sit down and start thinking about sex—and carving some sculptures. Bethlehem is a collection of very fertile villages that grows almonds and, more importantly, olives for oil.

The older water supply was contaminated by the animals slaughtered in the temple. They needed fresh water and this came from Bethlehem.

Bethlehem was built specifically to sit on top of the aquifer and be the defensive military installation guarding the whole infrastructure. About 2, years ago, they built a reservoir. In her late teens, she was a barmaid somewhere near Isthmia or Smyrna. She married a very ambitious Roman general, who had divorced his first wife, and they had a son, who became the emperor Constantine.

At a great age, his mother became the most powerful woman in the empire and a very influential Christian. Christianity seemed to appeal to wealthy Roman women because many of them had built up large inherited fortunes, either through divorce or death. Christianity became a roundabout way in which they could have influence. Helena was one of these women, and the most powerful of them. The church she built in Bethlehem is unlike any other. She picked the spot because the Roman bishop of Caesarea took her there, and the locals pointed out the spot that had, for the previous years, been where pilgrims had celebrated.

She saw this little cave and this ceramic manger or trough where people worshipped Christ. She was celebrating a site that already existed. The church she built is unlike any other. She basically burrowed into the cave, opened up the top of it, put a roof on and built a rotunda with a balcony, so you could look down into the cave.

It was St. Helena who created the famous little town of Bethlehem. She put the place on the map as the center of pilgrimage. She was followed by other very wealthy Roman women, the most prominent among them being St. The Samaritans burnt it down in a revolt. Two churches following the same design also no longer exist. In late , the violence between Israel and Palestine escalated. My mother-in-law, who was by then a widow, was living there.