Terra Sancta College[1] of Jerusalem serves as the cultural centre of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land and as a succursal institution (dependency) of Saint Saviour's Latin parish.

The building was erected in 1926 to house a boys' school named in Italian "Opera Cardinal Ferrari"[2] in honour of a recently deceased Archbishop of Milan who had shown much engagement for social justice.

[2] The school was designed by the Franciscan architect Antonio Barluzzi, who crowned the building with a replica of the statue of the Virgin Mary which stands on top of the Milan Cathedral, the Madonnina.

[2] Its activity ended due to lack of funds, and the property was then entrusted to the safe hands of the Custody of the Holy Land.

[2] Some of the scenes in the novel "A Tale of Love and Darkness" as well as "My Michael" by the Israeli writer Amos Oz play in those years inside the building.