The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is now closed
JERUSALEM - Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, revered in Christian tradition as the site of Jesus’s crucifixion and burial, was closed on Wednesday as a precaution against the coronavirus.
“The initial understanding is that this order is valid for one week, although nobody knows how long this crisis will take,” he said. The closure comes in the build-up to Easter, the most important festival in the Christian calendar, which Roman Catholics this year celebrate on April 12. It would normally see thousands of pilgrims and tourists flock to the city, whose streets are now virtually deserted.
Abu Nassar said that, “if, God forbid, this situation goes on too long and it enters into the season of Easter”, church authorities hoped that an arrangement could be found to celebrate within the new guidelines, perhaps by limiting attendance.
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