Catholicon at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Jerusalem, Israel
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ashberry
N 31° 46.709 E 035° 13.790
36R E 711148 N 3518046
To the east of the larger rotunda of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher is a Catholic, covered with a dome with a diameter of 19.8 m, decorated with a picture of Jesus Christ.
Waymark Code: WM14FKG
Location: Israel
Date Posted: 06/29/2021
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The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is located in Jerusalem, between Suq Khan e-Zeit and Christian Quarter Rd.
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In the central nave of the Crusader-era church, just east of the larger rotunda, is the Crusader structure housing the main altar of the Church, today the Greek Orthodox catholicon. Its dome is 19.8 metres (65 ft) in diameter, and sits directly over the centre of the transept crossing of the choir where the compas is situated, an omphalos ("navel") stone once thought to be the center of the world and still venerated as such by Orthodox Christians (associated with the site of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection).
Since 1996 this dome is topped by the monumental Golgotha Crucifix which the Greek Patriarch Diodoros I of Jerusalem consecrated. It was at the initiative of Israeli professor Gustav Kühnel to erect a new crucifix at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem that would not only be worthy of the singularity of the site, but that would also become a symbol of the efforts of unity in the community of Christian faith.
East of this is a large iconostasis demarcating the Orthodox sanctuary before which is set the throne of the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem on the south side facing the throne of the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch on the north side.