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Destruction of Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Tyre
ruins of the Crusader Cathedral in Tyre, Lebanon
- 1291
- Middle East
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ruins of the Crusader Cathedral in Tyre, Lebanon
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ruins of the Crusader Cathedral in Tyre, Lebanon
The cathedral was built in the Venetian quarter of Tyre, which contained several churches, among them the Church of Saint Mark on the ruins of the Great Fatimid Mosque, which itself had been built on the site of the temple of Melqart.
One of the most famous clergymen who served there was William of Tyre, who held his post between 1175 and 1185. After the fall of Jerusalem to the Ayyubids under Saladin, the cathedral became the traditional site of the coronations of the kings and queens of Jerusalem and the venue of royal weddings, considered one of the largest and most important church buildings in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
The bones of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa were interred there in 1190. The Bavarian historian and politician Johann Nepomuk Sepp attempted to locate them under the reign of King William I of Prussia in 1874, but without success.
The cathedral was damaged by the 1202 Syria earthquake and was finally destroyed in 1291 following the fall of the city to the Mamluks.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Tyre”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.