Holy Sepulcher

The Holy Sepulcher is the tomb outside the city walls of Jerusalem where Jesus was placed between His burial and Resurrection. It was a new tomb cut out of rock, owned by Joseph of Arimathaea, who had asked Pontius Pilate for Jesus's body.

Emperor Constantine built a basilica over this tomb, and today the Church of the Holy Sepulcher stands there to encompass both the site of the Crucifixion and the tomb.^[1] Late in life, Christopher Columbus sought to win for Christianity control of that cave back from the Muslims.

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