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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 "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.
An 1808 fire destroyed the tombs of the Latin kings. Fragments of the tombs were salvaged and inserted into the Greek section of the Holy Sepulchre, where they remained until the restoration works in the 1940s and 1970s. [4] Horn's work enabled Israeli art historian Zehava Jacoby to propose a reconstruction of Baldwin V's tomb. [5]
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 ...
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 carvings of angels in the roofs of the chancel and aisle were added. A polygonal bell-storey was built over the nave. [7] In 1643, during the Civil War, many of the "idolatrous" images were destroyed. [8] By the 19th century the church was in a poor state of repair.