Church of the Holy Sepulchre tickets & tours
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The inside story
In the ancient heart of old Jerusalem lies one of the holiest sites in the Christian faith. For many pilgrims, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre represents the physical presence of Jesus, as it is thought to have been constructed at the site of Golgotha. The rock of Golgotha – also known as Cavalry, is believed by much of the Christian world to be the precise location of Jesus’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection.
A church has stood at this site since the 4th century, when Emperor Constantine dispatched his mother, Empress Helena, to the Holy Land to track down the tomb of Jesus. When her investigations unearthed a tomb and a cross, Constantine ordered a church to be built on the site.
