Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Wikipedia The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, [a] [b] also known as the Church of the Resurrection, [c] is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem The church is the seat of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem [1]
SEPULCHRE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary These delightful boys, these whited sepulchres who always come here shrieking at the top of their voices on behalf of the working-classes, say that a six-hours working day is sufficient These places inside are practically sepulchres These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web
Church of the Holy Sepulchre | History, Significance . . . The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is a church built on the traditional site of Jesus’ Crucifixion and burial in the Old City area of Jerusalem According to the Bible, the tomb was close to the place of the Crucifixion, and so the church was planned to enclose the site of both the cross and the tomb
SEPULCHRE Definition Meaning - Dictionary. com Also called: Easter sepulchre a separate alcove in some medieval churches in which the Eucharistic elements were kept from Good Friday until the Easter ceremonies