Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Acre

Also known as Cathedral of Acre, Sainte-Croix d'Acre

After Saladin took Jerusalem in 1187 the Latin Patriarchate moved north to Acre, and the Cathedral of the Holy Cross — rebuilt around the recovered city after 1191 — became the principal cathedral of what historians call the 'Second Kingdom of Jerusalem'. The cathedral stood next to the great Hospitaller commandery of Saint-Jean-d'Acre and was the seat of the Latin Patriarch from 1191 until the city's fall. When Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil's Mamluks took Acre in 1291 the cathedral was systematically demolished along with the rest of the city's ecclesiastical infrastructure. The site was eventually built over by the Ottoman governor al-Jazzar in 1781 with the great mosque that today bears his name; fragments of the Crusader cathedral are still visible incorporated into the foundations.

Coordinates: 32.9234°, 35.0707°

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