Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . de the city walls,leaving by the Da-mascus gate, to visitthe quarries fromwhich the immensestones used in theerection of Solo-mons temple wereobtained. Return-ing, we stopped atthe Church of theHoly Sepulcher, cer-tain parts of whichare common proper-ty, all sects—Latin,Greek, Armenian,and Coptic—havingfree access to principalpart of the buildingis the rotunda, which has a dome ojien at the top, like the Pantheon. Beneath the dome stands the Holy Sepul-cher, a
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . de the city walls,leaving by the Da-mascus gate, to visitthe quarries fromwhich the immensestones used in theerection of Solo-mons temple wereobtained. Return-ing, we stopped atthe Church of theHoly Sepulcher, cer-tain parts of whichare common proper-ty, all sects—Latin,Greek, Armenian,and Coptic—havingfree access to principalpart of the buildingis the rotunda, which has a dome ojien at the top, like the Pantheon. Beneath the dome stands the Holy Sepul-cher, a little structure like a church in miniature, encased in white stone profusely orna-mented, and surmounted by a crown-shaped cu]5ola. It contains two small chambers—thefirst called the Chapel of the Angel, and said to be the place where the angel sat afterhe had rolled away the stone from the door of the stone itself is there tool Through this we pass and enter the Sepulcher by a very low door. It is a vault meas-uring six feet by seven. The tomb—a raised couch covered with a slab of white marble—. CHL KCH UF 7 HE H< I Muc\T OF o/./r/-:s. 109
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