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Tomb of Jesus Krist. Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

The Tomb – The aedicule, the artificial structure that stands in the center of the anastasis, simulates the original two-roomed tomb of hewn stone. One enters the first room, the Chapel of the Angel, where a richly ornamented cube of marble is encased. It is believed to have been part of the tomb cover on which the angel was seated when the women came to anoint Jesus’ body on Sunday morning and found the tomb empty. The second room is the mortuary chamber and the last station of the Via Dolorosa. A white marble slab about two yards long covers the bathtub type tomb which had been donated by Joseph of Arimathea. Above the tomb are 43 hanging lamps: four belonging to the Copts and the others equally divided among the Latins, Greeks and Armenians. An icon of the Virgin conceals part of the primitive rock tomb.

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