A place of hushed murmuring, candles and cold stone; site of Christ's sepulchre.A place as holy as this, in a city as contested as Jerusalem, is naturally a hotspot of religious one-upmanship. I heard it operated on a kind of time-share system, where each respective sect gets to do their necessary ablutions in rotation.
Ohad told a tale of one sect barricading itself in and changing all the locks overnight. The police were summoned, but were powerless as they couldn't damage a protected building! Drawn-out negotiations led to a resolution, but it's an apt illustration of the constant sectarian tensions at work.
Depicted: The slab where Jesus was laid out prior to burial; The sepulchre; The roof.
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Did you feel at all religious in there? I found I couldn't stomach the amount of Catholicism when I went to St Paul's, and had to go sulk while gf checked out the square.
--Can
Didn't bother me in the slightest - not like when I was a young'un, and ran out of a school Christmas service.
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