The Church of the Seat of Mary (Latin: Ecclesia Kathismatis, from Greek: κάθισμα, romanized: kathisma, lit. 'seat'), Church of the Kathisma or Old Kathisma being the name mostly used in literature, was a 5th-century Byzantine church in the Holy Land, located between Jerusalem and Bethlehem in East Jerusalem, on what is today known as Hebron Road.
It was built on the alleged resting place of Mary on the road to Bethlehem mentioned in the apocryphal Proto-Gospel of James. The church was built following the First Council of Ephesus of 431. It is one of the earliest churches known to have been dedicated to the Theotokos (Mary "the God-bearer") in the entire Byzantine Empire. It was converted into a mosque in the 8th century, destroyed after the Crusader period, and forgotten until its accidental discovery in 1992.
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