Holy Sepulchre Church - Jesus Christ's Crucifixion Site

[stybarrow1]

wonderful video tour of the church. thanks for posting !

[TheQuindecillion]

Religious magic and superstition has inspired some of the greatest art and architecture in history. Sort of a parodox, that ignorance and irrational belief systems could also be the source of so much beauty and intellectual achievement.

[stybarrow1]

@TheQuindecillion you sound troubled. which is ironic, as you were attempting to appear philosophical. in fact, had your post been better written and less common, you could have made a run an quasi-intellectual. keep trying (loser).

[nemoryer]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO. Thank you.

[massrerdean]

Do you know why the muslims hold the keys to the church?

[FatherPatOphelia]

@massrerdean It just said why in the video, dumbass.

[massrerdean]

@FatherPatOphelia well, do not call me dumb....! get some manners

[efks180]

@massrerdean Muslims conquered the Christians in the time of the Crusade.

[chartfix]

The 'Holy fire' is no Hoax people, it has been observed investigated and proven that the event happens. Do some research and don't take my word for it.

[petarphyle]

She found the cross in a nearby water sistern ! ?

300 years after "Christs death" -_-'

[NativeNewYorkGuy]

@petarphyle Saint Helena, the mother of the Emperor Constantine was the world's most successful archeologist. Not only did she find the cross, but the crown of thorns and the actual nails!

The story I heard was that she found not one, not two but three (3) crosses ...she had a convict killed then touched him with each cross...when the 'dead" man came back to life , BINGO! that was the true cross! I am not making this up, look it up.

[petarphyle]

@NativeNewYorkGuy

just been checking Helena , The site had been covered with earth by the emperor Hadrian and a temple of Venus erected on it, but how they knew with utter certainty that this wood was connected to Christ was a huge leap, and the nails and the crown of thorns were also found is the same site.

now theres putting all your eggs in one basket mentality for ya !

[petarphyle]

@NativeNewYorkGuy

also, apparently it was a woman near death, not a convict, that touched the cross and bingo,  she ready for gym class.

[NativeNewYorkGuy]

@petarphyle OMG! the plot thickens! You wouldn't believe some of the absurdities that have been found, revealed or discovered around Jerusalem. Perhaps one of the most amusing is the "sacred fire" a good hoax that only the Greek Orthodox Patriarch has the "power" to do ...hocus pocus...

AND get ready for this one, sit down if you are standing.....in a reliquary outside of Rome ....the FORESKIN of Jesus! Look it up this is not joke. I am serious .

[mark200457]

I was locked inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for 4 hours, from 8 p.m. to Midnight - by accident as Univ. of London surveyed the area and did some prevention study on the church over the tomb. I was 33 years old then - visiting Jerusalem for the 1st time, having no idea what this building was even about. What a blessing! Please go if you get the chance---it's breathtaking!

[PSAVA74]

I am planning on going to the Holy Sepulchre next Pascha (Easter) to see the Ayion Fos (Holy Fire) in the Holy Sepulchre...

Looks amazing & many people i know who have been said it was very emotional & better than they thought it would be...

[DreamsofMajesty]

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[Mistizza]

This is really nice, it touches me.

[JaredSkye]

beautiful! Christ is risen indeed! Thank God for the Orthodox Church and its unity and preserving this greatness--keep spreading the videos

[Nikolai9510]

Our spiritual home on this earth. God bless the holy land!

[walkintheway]

Sorry gang. I love Christ too, but this isn't the actual site. Same thing for the popular site of Mount Sinai - agin not the real thing. Comemerative only and beautiful, but not authentic.

[fivesecondsonly]

@walkintheway

You don't know your history very well. Many of the shrines over in the Holy Land are not the actual areas, like Bethlehem the Via Dolorosa and the site of the Last Supper to name a few. However this is the real deal this shrine. Read up on it and you will see that that very site although it was built in the 4th century, the shrine to pagan gods was built right after the death of our Lord on the very spot where the Christians knew the event happened. Longstoryshortthis isthesite

[NativeNewYorkGuy]

@fivesecondsonly All these "Holy" sites have to be taken with a grain of salt, Jerusalem was completely destroyed in 70 AD..and completely rebuilt as a Roman City with a whole different layout.

By 323, no one was alive who could actually pin point anything and the fables and legends surrounding it are cute. I would pray there as a commemorative site.

Quite frankly the Holy Land is a religious Disneyland.

[Abrahamoommen]

@fivesecondsonly : Many people are misguided to a wrong place telling that it is the place of last supper. Actual place is in a narrow street inside old city, the ancient monastery of St.Mark. Seeing that, anybody can easily recognize that the other one is a fake, "discovered" recently. Similarly, somebody 'discovered" new tomb of Jesus, which is now known as Garden Tomb.

[bzhseat]

I was there a year ago

[bazzymushpea123]

i really don't get this, is this a building which has been built over the old city? or is it just commemerative?

[businessbmw]

it is inside the old wall, and it is the site of the calvary.

[bazzymushpea123]

okay thanks

[businessbmw]

sure thing!! constantine the first christian roman emperor.

was leader of the east roman byzantine empire.

he built it in around 300 A.D

[luv2fixit]

I believe that Jesus is the Christ, The Son of the Living God.