Jeff at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Jeff is kneeling in an area of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (see below) to feel down a hole to the earth and rock of Golgotha where Jesus was crucified. This church was built up over this holy site.

The exterior of the church - always seems to be undergoing renovation. Picture it down a nondescript alley within the Old city of Jerusalem amid stalls and vendors and TONS of people!

And this is one area of the interior...quite a contrast!! Church of the Holy Sepulchre This article is about the church building in Jerusalem. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also called the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, or the Church of the Resurrection by Eastern Christians, is a church within the Christian Quarter of the walled Old City of Jerusalem. It is a few steps away from the Muristan. The site is venerated as Golgotha(the Hill of Calvary), where Jesus was crucified,[2] and is said also to contain the place where Jesus was buried (the Sepulchre). The church has been a paramount – and for many Christians the most important – pilgrimage destination since at least the 4th century, as the purported site of the resurrection of Jesus. Today it also serves as the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, while control of the building is shared between several Christian churches and secular entities in complicated arrangements essentially unchanged for centuries. Today, the church is home to Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism. Anglican, Nontrinitarian and Protestant Christians have no permanent presence in the church – and tend to venerate the alternative Garden Tomb, elsewhere in Jerusalem, as the true place of Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection. A trend among visitors to the spot (standing outside the Church) is to applaud loudly during the ringing of bells. This is to recognize the unique beauty of the Church and its unique history. The origin of this practice is in dispute; one source describes a similar act in the Peter Greenaway movie The Belly of an Architect. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia