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08-2017 Sep Doors

08-2017 Sep Doors

Door: Church of the Holy Sepulchre - February 2017
The intricately carved, arched wooden doors that compose the left side of the main entrance are the original doors, and the right doorway has long since been bricked up. The main entrance to the church is in the south transept, through the Crusader façade, in the parvis of a larger courtyard. This is found past a group of streets winding through the outer Via Dolorosa.

In 1187, Saladin took the church from the Crusaders and entrusted the Muslim Joudeh Al-Goudia family with its key, which is made of iron and is 30 cm (12 in) long. Even today, their descendants, the Nuseibeh family, as an impartial party, are responsible for opening the door.