Athenian scholars began to restore the cover of the Holy Sepulchre – Вести.Ru

the researchers first took a white slab of marble with a burial Bed of Jesus in the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. This part of the research aimed to find out what initially looked like a tomb. For two thousand years it has survived fires and earthquakes, and attacks of fighters with Christianity.

Church of the Resurrection — the main Shrine of Christianity, a place known to all Orthodox Russians, who were here or watched television broadcast every Holy Saturday of the Holy fire on the eve of Easter.

the Central place of the Temple located in the Rotunda, the chapel Edicule of the tomb, a place consisting of two aisles. The angel chapel and the chapel of the sepulchre. It was there that the Greek Patriarch of Jerusalem receives the Holy fire on the eve of the feast of the Passover.

Before it became known that scientists, archaeologists removed a marble slab above the bed, where according to legend and rested for three days before the resurrection the body of Jesus Christ. According to Frederick Gibberd, a scientist, an archaeologist, there were found rich stone array.

Scientists do not exclude that this manipulation will allow them to answer the question why Empress Helena visited the Holy Land in the early fourth century, decided that this place was the tomb of Christ, or rather, the family tomb of Joseph Remotescope, a Jerusalem of the first century of our era, which gave his bed to the disciples of Christ in order that they could remove the teacher from the cross and lay it in a tomb.

I Must say that this place, this plate was shot the last time in the mid-16th century. In any case, this is evidenced by the temple tradition. Accurate records are not available, as no accurate information about what the tomb of Christ was in these coordinations. This is primarily a matter of faith and the question of tradition.

Edicule built over the Holy sepulchre, Jerusalem was destroyed by fire in 1808, the year. Recreated in 2 years, and used drawings by Bartolomeo Rastrelli, which was built similar to the Edicule in new Jerusalem monastery near Moscow.

In 1923, the year Jerusalem suffered from a severe earthquake. Then Edicule passed through a few cracks. Since then, its hold the metal rails and brackets. The restoration of the Shrine, the chapel of the tomb began in the month of may immediately after the Easter holiday. It holds the Athens technological Institute.

in order to begin, it was necessary to agree the position of the Greek, Armenian, Catholic, Coptic churches represented in the Holy sepulchre. It is expected that by next Easter, by the spring of 2017, the year the work will be completed. Within this restoration was carried out eat the tombstones in the limit of the tomb in the Edicule of the Church of the Resurrection.