Sepulcher

The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is built on the spot where Catholics and Orthodox Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected.

A Christian pilgrim is blessed by a priest at the Ethiopian Monastery of Deir es-Sultan, located on the roof of the famed Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Then, less than a half a mile away, is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, hidden within the streets of the Christian Quarter and a beacon of Christianity for Christians all around the world.

This area, the heart of Jerusalem, is where magnificent holy places such as the Al Aqsa mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher are to be found.

Tourists pray outside the locked doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher Feb. 26 in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Vespers of Holy and Great Friday The crucified Christ, just before the Deposition from the Cross and the placing of the Epitaphios in the Sepulcher.