- Prior to the building of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the land on which it stands had been a temple to the deity Aphrodite, built by the Emperor Hadrian.
- Only when the Crusaders arrived in the 11th century, people started calling it the “Church of the Holy Sepulchre,” which means “the Church of the Holy Tomb.”
- Holy Sepulchre is the holiest place for catholic and orthodox Christians in Israel; this is due to it being the place where Jesus was crucified.
- According to traditions, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem contains two of Christianity’s holiest sites. They are the Golgotha and Jesus’s empty tomb.
- Origen of Alexandria (185 – 253 AD) is also an eyewitness of the location of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as the location of Golgotha.
- The Church of the Holy Sepulchre , also known as the Church of Resurrection is a basilica situated in the Christian Quarter in Old Jerusalem.
- In the center of the Holy Sepulchre Church, underneath the largest dome (recently renovated), lies the Holy Sepulchre itself, the "Heart" of the Sepulchre.
- The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (or Church of the Resurrection) is a church and shrine in Jerusalem that is supposedly built around the empty tomb of...
- See the most Holy Catholic Sites in the world, empty, still, and reverent. Here is a detailed map of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.