Holy Seulcher Significance

The significance of the modern day Jerusalem as a religious capital cannot be established without the sacred sites of different religions in the city, including the Western Wall of the ancient Jewish Temple and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher of the Christians. After the complete destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 CE by the Roman forces, Jerusalem was stripped of its spiritual axis and left desolated with the Jews banned from the city. Consequently, when the Church of the Holy Sepulcher was built on the Western Hill, the city of Jerusalem was invigorated with a new religious passion, but the rivalry between Judaism and Christianity was also intensified. Despite of the fact that these two establishments were centers of two different religions,
However, the Holy Sepulcher differed from the Temple in the sense that the former was a commemoration of Christ with the intention of supporting the comprehension of the New Testament, while the latter was the only verified sanctuary for the Jews to access the divine. While the Christians presumptuously celebrated the superiority of Christianity over Judaism through the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the truth was that Judaism had maintained its religious significance throughout history, and thus Christianity should be interpreted as a redefinition of Judaism rather than a triumph over the older religion. Therefore, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher is a religious construction representing not only the Christian foundation in Judaism, but also the deviation of Christianity from