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Ninth Station outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, other churches, synagogues, Torah scrolls and other non-Muslim religious artifacts and buildings in and around Jerusalem, were destroyed starting on 28 September 1009 on the orders of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, known by his critics as "the mad Caliph" [1] or "Nero of Egypt". [2]
The church was named either for the Resurrection of Jesus, or for his tomb, which is at its focal point. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is also known as the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre [9] and the Holy Sepulchre. Eastern Christians also call it the Church of the Resurrection and the Church of the Anastasis, Anastasis being Greek for ...
The current structure was built in its current shape by the Ayyubid Sultan Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din in 1193 to commemorate the prayer of the caliph Omar. [3] The entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre had by then moved from the east to the south of the church, as a result of repeated destructive events that affected the Holy Sepulchre and Muslim mosques during the 11th and 12th centuries.
After a three year halt due to financial problems, work resumed Monday on a Greek Orthodox church being built to replace one destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
The church reopened on Wednesday after Israel backtracked on Tuesday from a tax plan and draft property legislation that triggered a three-day protest. Jerusalem's Church of Holy Sepulchre reopens ...
The "Immovable Ladder" at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.. The Immovable Ladder is a wooden ladder leaning against a window of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem, protected from removal or alteration under the law of the Status Quo.
STORY: (SOUNDBITE) (English) AMIT RE'EM, JERUSALEM REGIONAL ARCHAEOLOGIST FOR ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY, SAYING: "This is a piece, main piece of the main high altar of the Holy Sepulchre church.
The Old City is home to several sites of key importance and holiness to the three major Abrahamic religions: the Temple Mount and the Western Wall for Judaism, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for Christianity, and the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque for Islam.