This place made a special moving impression on me. Getting into the Temple, from the first step you are filled with some special reverence and quivering delight. This feeling did not leave me for a long time after our group left the temple. Here you want to move slowly, to speak in a whisper or not to speak at all - what are the words for? Here is twilight, the smell of incense and myrrh, the flickering light of candles, reflected in the icons and gilding of jewelry, here every centimeter of the floor, every pebble, bears its own thousand-year history ...You can write about this place for a long time - about Holy Golgotha, the Holy Sepulcher, the Cross Crucifixion, the Stone of Anointing and the Holy Fire. About how some can't stand it and cry, pray, fall on their knees...
About hundreds of tourists who are waiting in line to touch the chrismation stone for just a few seconds, light candles from the Holy Fire and finally visit Edicule, the very place where the body of Christ lay, in a small cave where two strict priests stand at the entrance . Despite the fact that inside the temple it is stuffy from a huge number of tourists, candles, narrow passages and a strong smell of incense, this place made the strongest impression of all the shrines of Israel.
About hundreds of tourists who are waiting in line to touch the chrismation stone for just a few seconds, light candles from the Holy Fire and finally visit Edicule, the very place where the body of Christ lay, in a small cave where two strict priests stand at the entrance . Despite the fact that inside the temple it is stuffy from a huge number of tourists, candles, narrow passages and a strong smell of incense, this place made the strongest impression of all the shrines of Israel.
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