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The documents of the collection are classified by year; it includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, comprising those from the Embassy in Constantinople on the affairs in Jerusalem: original messages from Russian Ambassadors and Envoys in foreign states, their letters, reports, telegrams; instructions, notes, and telegrams from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The documents of this collection were sent to the editorial office of the newspaper ''Mshak''. They include articles, letters, financial reports of the newspaper, etc.
List 1 is untitled Ecclesiastical section and include 769 cases (boxes).

This collection includes 88 “lists” (sections) and each of them is dedicated to a famous Armenian (either an historian, a musician, a painter, a monk, a general, a professor, an editor, a doctor, or an engineer), or to a well-known institution or event. For instance, this collection also includes papers from the Armenian orphanage of Aleppo, documents about the massacres of Cilicia, or papers from the charitable organizations of Syria, Lebanon and etc.
These are mostly personal papers that have been given to the National Archives of Armenia by relatives.

Papers, 1841-1976 relating to the Diocese of Jerusalem and St. George’s Cathedral, missionary activities, chaplaincies, health and education provision in Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Iran, the Gulf, Egypt, Sudan, Cyprus and North Africa. The collection also contains correspondence relating to the political situation in Mandatory Palestine. Presscutting volumes. Quarterly newsletter/magazine of the Jerusalem and East Mission, later Jerusalem and Middle East Church Association Bible Lands from 1899. Photographic collection.
Language of material: English; a very small amount of Arabic.

The Sharia court records constitute one the richest sources for the social and economic history of Jerusalem, since this court was, “by and large, the sole legal arbiter and a primary instrument of social control” (Doumani, 1985) until Ibrahim Pasha’s reforms in the 1830s. These records deal with all realms of human interaction, from personal status issues, sales contracts, building permits to civil and criminal cases. However, after the Ottoman judicial reforms of 1876 and the establishment of the nizamîya court system, the sharia courts were no longer dealing with criminal cases and less civil cases could be taken before them. Their function was further curtailed by the British mandate authorities who limited them to the Muslim community.

The shari‘a court registers (sijillât mahkama shar‘îyya) of Jerusalem represent the oldest and most complete collection of Ottoman period court registers in Palestine, covering the years 1529-1917. Microfilms dating from the Ottoman period are accessible in the Islamic Archives in Abu Dis, at the Centre for Manuscripts and Documents of the University of Jordan in Amman, in the library of the University of Al-Najah in Nablus and in the library of the University of Haifa.

The described items were selected according to the period covered by the project and the earthquake of 1837.

The RG 84 series (US-NARA) includes the rapatriated records from US embassies and consulates around the world. It is mainly constitutes of correspondence.
For the period between 1856 and 1935, we can find 261 volumes. It is both sent correspondence (copies or minutes) and received correspondence (the received letters are stuck together to form registers).
Most of these registers date back to the 1912-1935 period (160 volumes).
The selected items come from Volume 22 (Years 1857 to 1870), Volume 47A (Years 1871 to 1886), Volume 47B (Years 1886 to 1896), Volume 47C (Years 1897 to 1908) and Volume 47D (Years 1904 to 1909).

This fonds is part of the Archives of Religious Houses (or Archives of convents) held by the Historical Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land.

The Monastery of St. Francis ad Coenaculum (familiarly known as the Little Cenacle) is located on Mount Zion, near the place where the Last Supper is commemorated and where, in the 14thcentury, the Friars Minor built the first monastery in the city of Jerusalem.

The Cenacle (from Latin cēnāculum "dining room", later spelt coenaculum and semantically drifting towards "upper room"), also known as the "Upper Room", is a room in the David's Tomb Compound in Jerusalem, traditionally held to be the site of the Last Supper.
In the 1330s, it passed into the custody of the Franciscan Order of Friars who managed the structure until 1524. At that time Ottoman authorities took possession of the Cenacle converting it into a mosque. The Franciscans were completely evicted from their surrounding buildings in 1550.
The friars betook themselves to the nearby bakery, where they lived until 1560 when they transferred to the Georgian monastery El Amud, called St. Saviour's.
On March 29, 1936 the Franciscans returned to within a few yards of the Cenacle, having bought the old bakery from the Dejani family that held the Cenacle and transformed it into the Convent of St. Francis, and the Church ad Coenaculum.

Structure of the fonds: global extent: 21 files; Feb. 1926 feb. - 3 Sept. 2000
Series A, Convent’s chapter. Global extent: 1 file; 18 Aug. 1986 - 8 Feb. 1993
Series B, Correspondence. Global extent: 1 file; 21 Dec. 1980 - 9 Dec. 1993
Series C, Holy Masses. Global extent: 2 files; 23 Apr. 1936 - 5 Jan. 1971
Series D, Chronicles and memoirs. Global extent: 17 files; Feb. 1926 - 3 Sept. 2000
D-I, Various memoirs. Global extent: 5 files; 17 May 1948 - 14 June 1962
D-II, Registers of pilgrim priest. Global extent: 7 files; 9 Jan. 1971 - 3 Sept. 2000
D-III, Registers of pilgrims. Global extent: 1 file; Feb. 1926 - [mid XXth century]
D-IV, Chronicles. Global extent: 4 files; 5 July 1960 - Dec. 1997

Dominican Priory of St. Stephen of Jerusalem records.

It should be noted that the Poor Clares are a cloistered and not an apostolic order, so the monastery's interactions with the world are limited. The community has never maintained a school or dispensary: the monastery's archives reflect this life of enclosure.