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Church of Holy Sepulcher
With final chants still echoing off stone walls, the heavy wooden doors swing slowly shut. The lock creaks as an ancient metal key turns. Between now and dawn, there's no leaving the cavernous church, its dim recesses lit only by lamps and candles. During the day, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's walled Old City -- held by many Christians to be the site of the crucifixion and resurrection -- is a beehive of activity.
Pilgrimage is an odd kind of homing instinct, a deeply rooted human impulse. In centuries past, pilgrims' voyages to places like the Holy Sepulcher were fraught with peril. Now a visit to holy sites is as easy as buying a plane ticket. Because of the cargo of hopes it carries, though, a modern-day pilgrimage has its spiritual risks. People come to holy places to try to make prayer easier but many don't have a mystical experience. And this can be devastating -- they're disappointed, they blame themselves. Long after midnight in Holy Sepulcher, a Franciscan father from South St. Paul, Minn., gazed into the enveloping darkness and tried to explain the hold the church has on believers.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was investigated for the first time by trial soundings during 1933/34 and has been re-examined from 1960 onwards by various scholars. It is a huge and sophisticated architectural complex consisting of four units: an outer atrium, a basilica (or Martyrium) an inner atrium and a rotunda (around the Anastasis), a circular domed structure separated from the basilica by an second, inner atrium. This latter structure solved the problem of linking the Martyrium (the basilica) to the church complex....
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