Photo de Saint Sépulchre, Israël, Asie

Waiting to enter the edicule with the Tomb of Christ

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Jerusalem holds the holiest of places also for Christians: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built on the spot where Jesus was crucified and buried. It is the visitors rather than the church that make it feel like a holy site.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was initially built instead of a temple in honour of Venus and Jupiter by Helena, the mother of Constantine, some 300 years after Jesus died. At that time, the site was well outside the city walls - now, the church is crammed into the Christian quarter. Inevitably in such a hotly contended place, the church was attacked, destroyed, damaged by fire and an earthquake, and rebuilt several times. The current facade was made by the Crusaders in the 11th century. Apart from watching the believers as they pray, approach the holy sites and wait to enter them, there are many things to see in almost every corner and chapel of this church. Among them: the church of St. Helena, the stone of the anointing, the Mary Magdalene chapel, the seven arches of the virgin, the prison of Christ, the rock which held the cross on which Jesus was crucified.
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