The Church has a complicated past of Caliphs and Crusaders, but nowadays it is a pilgrimage site from Christians of varying denominations. As the different denominations cannot agree of the ownership of the church, the key rests in the hands of a local Muslim family who are to this day responsible for unlocking it in the morning and locking it again in the evening.
The photos are:
1. View of the outside of the Church
2. Ceiling above the Stone of the Unction
3. Tomb Monument (this is the Holy Sepulchre, the tomb where pilgrim's believe Jesus' boy was laid)
4. Church of St. Helena (this is were the "true cross" - cross believed to be used for Jesus' crucifixion - of the three crosses St. Helena discovered was displayed, but over the years pilgrims bit of so many bits as momentous when they kissed the cross in prayer, that the cross no longer exists)
The photos are:
1. View of the outside of the Church
2. Ceiling above the Stone of the Unction
3. Tomb Monument (this is the Holy Sepulchre, the tomb where pilgrim's believe Jesus' boy was laid)
4. Church of St. Helena (this is were the "true cross" - cross believed to be used for Jesus' crucifixion - of the three crosses St. Helena discovered was displayed, but over the years pilgrims bit of so many bits as momentous when they kissed the cross in prayer, that the cross no longer exists)
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