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ture was destroyed by invading Persians in 614, later rebuilt on a smaller scale, then burned and demolished by 11th century Moslems. The rock-cut tomb was a great prize for the Crusaders. Jerusalem’s streets ran with blood in A.D. 1099 as knights wrested the holy shrine from jMoslem control. The Crusaders rebuilt the church, but it was gutted by fire in 1808 and battered by an earthquake in 1927. After the earthquake, British mandate officials shored the interior and facade with steel scaffolding. Even this wellintentioned gesture contributed to the church’s decay. Scorching days and chilly Inights in Jerusalem made the scaffolding expand and contract, thus loosening the very stones supposedly being reinforced.
General neglect of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre over the centuries may be ending. Recently, the three major sects whose shrines occupy the greater part of the church--Armenian OrthoJ dox, Greek Orthodox, and Ro-i man Catholic—began an ambii tious two-million-dollar building program designed to restore Christendom’s first; shrine to its original beauty.
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