Las grutas del Parque de la Independencia de Jerusalén, ¿un mithraeum?

Based on factual and historical elements (admittedly with some degree of hypothetical reconstruction) the author proposes to see traces of a Roman Mithraeum in a cluster of grottoes laying beneath the green lawn of the Independence Park in Jerusalem. This place was part of the Muslim cemetery of the Mamilla and there are remains of a mosque. Throughout the centuries, these grottoes kept some religious significance notwithstanding their being, at different times, under the control of different religions. Countless marks of the Christian tenure in the medieval times are still to be seen on the plaster covering their rocky walls. The caves were then known by the name of “Lionʼs Den.” However, Christians may have inherited the religious background from the previous holders.