1. A brief explanation of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher

2.  The church of the holy
sepulcher was built during
325-336 A.D.
 It sits in modern day
Jerusalem, Israel.
 Supposedly it is the site
where Jesus Christ’s body is
buried

3. The architect Zenobius built
this basilica to honor the
Christian deity Jesus Christ
and his supposed burial spot.
This in itself goes against the
Christian belief that Jesus
died and ascended into
heaven. Roman and Greek
mythology also challenges
these Christian claims.

4. Before the construction of the Church
of the Holy Sepulcher, the Greeks had
actually constructed the Temple to
Aphrodite on the same site.
Aphrodite being the Greek goddess of
love, beauty and procreation.
Emperor Constantine ordered that
the original temple to Aphrodite be
demolished and covered in soil in
about 325 A.D. This left behind no
trace of the original temple.

5. There is also discussion that the temple
could have also been that of the Roman
goddess, Venus. She is Aphrodite’s Roman
equivalent of love, beauty, sex and fertility.

6. Constantine's church was built as
two connected churches over the two
different holy sites, including a
great Bascilia, an
enclosed colonnaded atrium with
the traditional site of Golgotha in
one corner, and a rotunda, called
the Anastasis (Resurrection) which
contained the remains of a
rockface that Helena and Macarius
identified as the burial site of Jesus.
The rock face at the west end of the
building was cut away, although it is
unclear how much remained in
Constantine's time, as archaeological
investigation has revealed that the
temple of Aphrodite reached far into
the current rotunda area.

7. The center of the Church held the tomb of Christ. This was
surrounded by a cone-shaped dome supported by twelve
columns. Today we see many western churches and
mausoleums with this same theme of architecture. The
Church was qualified in all three categories we have been
discussing; commodity, firmness and delight.

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 www.destination360.com/middle-east/israel/church-
of-the-holy-sepulcherm/holysepulcher.htm
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