The Stone of Anointing, where Jesus' body is said to have been anointed before burial, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. For Orthodox Christians this church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, contains, according to traditions, the two holiest sites in Christianity: the site where Jesus of Nazareth was presented in the temple, where he drove out the money changers and was crucified. Within the church are the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem.

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