An Ethiopian Monk falls asleep on a warm spring afternoon. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the old city of Jerusalem, Deir es Sultan, is located not within the walls of the Holy Sepulcher but rather on its rooftop. As the story goes, the Ethiopians lost their foothold in the main building of the Holy Sepulcher and were finally forced onto the roof in the 16th century. In the 18th century, their rooftop monastery was taken from them and only returned through the intervention of the British Consul; the monastery’s keys, however, are still in the possession of the Egyptian Coptic church.

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