Ascension Church, German Lutheran church on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, Israel

The Ascension Church is a German Lutheran church within the Augusta Victoria Hospital complex on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, built in the Wilhelminian neo-Byzantine style. Its three-aisled nave is crossed by a transept at the altar end, and a tower about 65 metres high holds four bells, the largest weighing 6,120 kg. A massive porch shields the west facade from wind and rain.

The German Lutheran church was built by the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation, founded in 1899. Kaiser Wilhelm II promised the German-speaking Protestant communities a hospice and malaria hospital on the Mount of Olives during his 1898 visit; the foundation stone was laid on Easter Sunday 1907, and the hospice with the church was inaugurated on 9 April 1910. In 1917 the British confiscated the complex and governed the Mandate from it; the 1927 Jericho earthquake forced the tower to be shortened by 10 metres.

The church is Lutheran, built by the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation, and is often simply called "Augusta Victoria" after the adjoining hospital. Its interior is unusually rich for a Protestant church: ceiling paintings after designs by Otto Vittali, and mosaics by Puhl & Wagner. In the choir, Wilhelm II and Auguste Victoria sit holding models of churches, surrounded by crusader rulers such as Barbarossa and Richard the Lionheart.

The church stands within the Augusta Victoria hospital compound on the Mount of Olives, at 850 m above sea level, and is usually reached through the hospital grounds. The massive west porch shields the facade from wind and rain, so the main doors sit behind it rather than on the open slope.

The tower holds four bells cast for the church, the largest weighing 6,120 kg and named Herrenmeister; the others are Deutscher Kaiser (2,730 kg), Kaiserin (1,630 kg) and Friede (1,072 kg). The 1927 Jericho earthquake damaged the buildings and the tower had to be shortened by about 10 metres.