The Dominus Flevit Church on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem was designed by the Italian architect Antonio Barluzzi for the Franciscans. The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land holds the church in trust, and the Franciscans bought part of the property from the Benedictine Sisters in 1940. The infobox gives only 1955 as the completion date, and the text says construction ran from 1953 to 1955.
The article names no style or main materials, though it notes a teardrop shape meant to symbolize Christ's tears and a limestone slab with a cross in the floor mosaic. It gives no dimensions.
Excavations began in the 1950s and uncovered Canaanite, Second Temple and Byzantine remains, including a 5th-century monastery. It is an active Roman Catholic church. The article gives no hours.
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