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Church of the Holy Sepulchre

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Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Phone:
+972 2-627-3314

Address:
Suq Khan e-Zeit and Christian Quarter Road. | Christian Quarter, Jerusalem, Israel

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is a church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The church contains, according to traditions dating back to at least the fourth century, the two holiest sites in Christianity: the site where Jesus of Nazareth was crucified, at a place known as Calvary or Golgotha, and Jesus's empty tomb, where he is said to have been buried and resurrected. The tomb is enclosed by the 19th-century shrine, called the Aedicule . The Status Quo, a 150-year-old understanding between religious communities, applies to the site.Within the church proper are the last four Stations of the Via Dolorosa, representing the final episodes of Jesus' Passion. The church has been a major Christian pilgrimage destination since its creation in the fourth century, as the traditional site of the Resurrection of Christ, thus its original Greek name, Church of the Anastasis. Today, the wider complex accumulated during the centuries around the Church of the Holy Sepulchre also serves as the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, while control of the church itself is shared among several Christian denominations and secular entities in complicated arrangements essentially unchanged for over 160 years, and some for much longer. The main denominations sharing property over parts of the church are the Greek Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic and Roman Catholic, and to a lesser degree the Coptic Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox. Meanwhile, Protestants, including Anglicans, have no permanent presence in the Church. Some Protestants prefer The Garden Tomb, elsewhere in Jerusalem, as a more evocative site to commemorate Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection.
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