Entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Believed to be the site of Golgotha and where Jesus was buried. There is actually one other site that some believe (more recently) could have been the place...coming up on Day9.
The inside was almost more than I could handle. It was quite oppressive.
More. Sadly considered to be the holiest place for Christians and I felt anything but.
This is the sepulchre. My battery died on my camera so this and the next photo was taken with my phone. God's holy fire is believed to come down into the sepulchre every Easter and people line up to light their candles from it.
This is believed to be the anointing stone where Jesus body was prepared for burial. People kneel to weep and rub the stone.
Early Christians abandoned the Temple Mount believing in Replacement Theology-that God was done with the Jewish people. Their focus was on this place instead. The Muslims have the Temple because the early Christians had the wrong theology.
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