According to a tradition, this site was the house of High PriestAnnas, although earlier traditions also placed the house at different sites, such as onJehoshaphat Street[3] or onMount Zion.[4]
^Tchekhanovets, Yana (2018).The Caucasian Archaeology of the Holy Land. Brill. p. 226.ISBN978-90-04-36555-1.Armenian church of the Holy Archangels (Deir el-Zeitun, or 'The Monastery of the Olive Tree'), situated in the south-eastern part of the Armenian Patriarchate grounds.
^Pringle 2007, p. 133. "Marino Sanudo (c.1320) […] places the house of Annas near the house of Pilate in the Street of Jehoshaphat, and the house of Caiaphas on Mount Sion."
^Pringle 2007, p. 112. "The earliest association of the house of Annas with Mount Sion appears to date to the seventh century, though it appears at that time to have been equated with that of Caiaphas."
^Pringle 2007, p. 115. "a mural chamber […] is venerated as the Prison of Christ."
^Pringle, p. 369. "The small chamber referred to as the Prison of Christ is entered through a low door […] in the south wall of the choir."
^Pringle, p. 371. "the sacristy, which became the Prison of Christ in the later thirteenth century"
^Pringle 2007, p. 116. "origin for this church […] in opting for a date in the second half of the thirteenth [… Another opinion is that it] was probably built before 1187."