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   Jerusalem is holy city for three religions and two of them to the promised land. In the old city there are priests, nuns, and rabbis mollah them everywhere. Churches of all denominations endow the city, the mosque with golden dome can be seen from distance and the Wailing Wall is always crowded.

   Church of the Holy Sepulchre is an architectural complex erected by the Crusaders in the eleventh century, the place of another church, built by Empress Helena in the fourth century. Here are the most expensive seats of Christianity: Mount Calvary and the tomb of Jesus Christ, and below the stone cliff, the cave where he was discovered by the Empress Helena which Cross was crucified Son of God.

   In south-east angle of the church is a huge rock, the white sandstone. Here is a separate room in two shrines: the south is raised on the place where Jesus was stripped of his clothes and nailed to the Cross, and belongs to the Catholics. Belongs to the Orthodox shrine north and is built on the site where the Cross was planted on her crucified Savior. The two altars are separated by two large columns. Catholic shrine is called "Virgin of Sorrows" and the Orthodox - Holy Calvary Chapel. Holy Shrine is dominated by a large cross on which Jesus Christ is painted. Under the Holy Mass is a deep hole, marked by a rosette of gold, star-shaped, marking the place where it was stuck Holy Cross. Ceiling hang dozens of lit candles.

    At eight feet to the center of the church, between Calvary and the Holy Sepulchre, is a reddish flagstone, having shaped gravestone, where pilgrims kneel reverently. This is called "anointing stone" because Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus here have placed Jesus' body after the lowering of the Cross. In the western part of the church, amid a huge Rotonde, supported by 18 stone columns, is the Holy Sepulchre of the Saviour. Under high rotunda dome is a stone canopy, just above the Holy Sepulchre. Stone opposite the Holy Sepulchre is Holy Resurrection Cathedral, Church of the Holy Sepulchre itself, which belongs to the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Here are three altars. Grave nature of God is interfaith shrine, where they serve, in a hierarchical and historical first Orthodox, and Armenians, Copts and Catholics. The second altar is the Holy Golgotha and the Church of the Resurrection is the third altar, the cathedral of the Orthodox Patriarchate in the Holy Land. Here serve only Orthodox day and to celebrate their jobs are formal synod of priests and chief priests. In the middle of the narthex is a candlestick particular stone, which marks the center of the church.

   Following the tradition of the Orthodox Church is considered to Jerusalem, where Jesus was crucified, is positioned in the center of the world, because the Son of God suffered for the salvation of the world.

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