Christ Church Ministry Center is an evangelical Anglican congregation, a center of prayer for all nations with worship reflecting the Jewish context of the gospel and celebrating both Jewish and Christian holidays. Considered the first Protestant church in the Middle East it was completed in Jerusalem in 1849 and soon after became known as the Jewish Protestant Church. Founders of CMJ had a great concern for the Jewish people and wanted to share with them the good news of Messiah Jesus. They anticipated the Jewish return to the Land of Israel in fulfillment of what was understood to be Bible prophecy, long before the advent of Zionism, and wanted to be in a position to help that process. The building itself is part of a small compound just inside the Jaffa Gate opposite King David's citadel, consecrated by Bishop Samuel Gobat in 21 January 1849.
The Syriac Orthodox Church of St. Mark is home to one of Jerusalem’s smallest and oldest Christian communities, on a traditional setting claimed to be the site of the Upper Room of the Last Supper. In the north eastern corner of the Old City’s Armenian Quarter, on Ararat Street which branches off to St. Mark’s Street, its worship employs the oldest surviving liturgy in Christianity, based on the rite of the early Christian Church of Jerusalem, using the Syriac language, a dialect of the Aramaic that Jesus spoke. Mark’s mother, Mary of Jerusalem, had a house where members of the early Church met. It was to this house that Peter went when an angel released him from prison (Acts 12:12-17). Supported by a 6th century inscription discovered in 1940, the Syriac Orthodox believe the Church of St. Mark is on the site of that house.
