THE HOLY SEPULCHRE
The shrine of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the dangerous state of _ decay of which is a subject of comment, is a small chapel standing in the middle of the famous round church, the first, as the traveller enters, of the collection of churches and chapels grouped together over the traditional site of Calvary (says the ‘Evening Standard ’). It is an i oblong building, within which two marble slabs wide enough for two persons to kneel abreast before them, cover the actual rock of the tomb in the form of an altar. , „ , , The' chapel belongs to the Greek Church, as does also the round enclosing building known as the Rotunda. The "gallery that runs round the building, however, is the property of the Roman Catholics,
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Evening Star, Issue 19003, 27 July 1925, Page 7
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128THE HOLY SEPULCHRE Evening Star, Issue 19003, 27 July 1925, Page 7
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