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Holy Sepulchr Special Tour

Added 2025-06-17 17:00:07 +0000 UTC

So while in Israel, we had an amazing tour guide who took us to Old Jerusalem and showed us a burned out area where there is greater belief that Jesus may be buried. It is not in the traditional flashy section, but in a section of the church Armenians own and cannot renovate because to renovate anything within the Holy Sepulcher ALL groups with some ownership of space must approve every change. It has led to essentially NOTHING ever changing in the church. And the poor Armenians had a fire and the other sects won't approve them renovating it! However, part of why is because in the fire, a wall fell away revealing a number of empty jewish tombs that more accurately aligned with historical descriptions of Jesus' burial place.