Deir Rafat

Deir Rafat (Arabic: دير رفات, Hebrew: דיר ראפאת), also known as the Shrine of Our Lady Queen of Palestine and of the Holy Land, is a Catholic monastery in central Israel.

[1] The monastery was established in 1927, under the then British Mandate of Palestine, by the Latin Patriarch Luigi Barlassina and contained a boarding school, an orphanage and convent.

Currently the convent is running a guest house and a retreat center for believers and Holy Land pilgrims.

The façade of the convent church bears the Latin inscription "Reginæ Palæstinæ", lit.

The church ceiling is decorated with a painting showing angels carrying banners with the first words of the Hail Mary prayer in 280 languages.

Deir Rafat Monastery, 1948