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Photos: Jesus Tomb In Jerusalem Opens To Public After $4 Million Renovation
March 23, 2017 – Pictures: Jesus Tomb In Jerusalem Renovated At A Cost Of $4 Million
Some experts from Greek have completed the restoration of Jesus tomb in Jerusalem at a cost of $4 million.
The renovation lasted almost a year, the UPI reported.
The tomb site is a cave where Roman Catholics and Orthodox Catholics believe Jesus was entombed and then was resurrected. It lies beneath a shrine called the Edicule, which itself is surrounded by the 12-century Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City.
The restoration included the cleaning and reinforcing of the limestone and marble Edicule and the removal of an iron cage installed in 1947 to shore up its walls. The shrine was restored once before, in 1810 after an 1807 fire, and has not been improved since.
The project was led by the National Technical University of Athens and was announced completed on Monday. The restoration team removed hundreds of years of candle soot, as well as marble slabs encasing a stone bench where believers say Jesus’ body was placed after his crucifixion and death. One slab was installed by the emperor Constantine when the first church on the site was built; another was from the late-Crusader era in the 14th century.
“It was really important to see the bench, very flat and almost complete, from the right to the left, almost for the shape of one man [who] can stay on it,” said Eugenio Alliata, an Italian archaeologist. “This was really something very important. And it was the first time it has been documented as it is.”
The funders for the project included Jordan’s King Abdullah and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
“I would venture to say that if this intervention hadn’t happened now, there was a very great risk that there could have been a collapse,” said Bonnie Burnham of the World Monuments Fund, a New York-based non-profit organization which also raised funds for the project.
A small window was cut into a cave wall so visitors can see the burial place of Jesus.
Commenthin
March 23, 2017 at 3:29 AM
#shame on ALL the rich pastors and churches around the World, Muslim Kings/president fund/finance the project…$4Million.
Big Uncle Bench
March 23, 2017 at 9:14 AM
All the pipul weyis say I am not dey important, even this pipul wey have do this have talk am say I am dey importancy. They talk am say it was really important to see the Bench. Na me they are talk about.
iron bar
March 23, 2017 at 1:19 PM
great historical place to visit during pilgrimage..unbeleivers wont like this
Jovim
March 23, 2017 at 8:11 PM
@ Commenthin Thank you so much for your comment, you said what is in my mind. our Nigerian pastor’s will used people’s money to buy Jet and Car’s also sponsored Nollywood rubbish, my people shine your eyes.
Ms ERANKO
March 25, 2017 at 12:28 AM
***** WAS AN ARAB AND HE SPEAK ARABIA LANGUAGE,
WHEN YOU READ QUARAN, YOU WILL DISCOVER THATIT IS NO DIFFERENT FROM THE BIBLE
I DO NOT SEE THE DIFFERENT AT ALL FROM THE BIBLE
IT IS ALMOST THE SAME
BECAUSE YOU CAN READ ABOUT ANGEL GABRAIL AND BABY JESUS AND OTHER ALL OTHER VERSES AND NAMES OF SAINT IN THE BIBLE ARE IN THE QURAN
CHIRIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Omokehinde
March 25, 2017 at 3:37 AM
This is a must visit site for me whenever I visit the Holy Land of Isreal. It will be a glorious experience for me and my family to visit where the ultimate “Power of Resurrection” from the above removed the stone on Jesus Christ tomb and our Lord and Savior rose up from the death. The renovation was necessary and important to christian faith. Kudos to National Technical University of Athens for the excellent job. Thank you all for the preservation of the most powerful monument in the entire world.