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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.10357#0110
JERUSALEM,
The chapel is on the left of the road. A few steps lead down to an open court, in which there
is a fine porch of the Crusading period, the only part of the church above ground. The
chapel, which is about thirty-five feet below the court, is reached by a flight of marble steps.
On descending, a chapel on the right is said to contain the tombs of Joachim and Anna, the
parents of the Virgin, and an altar in a chapel to the left marks the last resting-place of
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ENTRANCE TO THE CHAPEL OF THE TOMB OF THE VIRGIN.
In the valley of the Kedron. The lizards on the sunny wall are thoroughly characteristic of the place.
Joseph, the husband of Mary. The chapel, or subterranean church, is about ninety feet long
from east to west, and twenty feet wide. In the east arm there is a small shrine containing
the tomb of Mary, outside of which the Greeks and Armenians have each an altar. South of
the tomb there is a Moslem " mihrab," and in the western arm of the chapel, close to a large
cistern, the Abyssinians have erected an altar. The chapel is excavated in the rock, and in
forming it advantage appears to have been taken of a natural cavern, or possibly of an old
The chapel is on the left of the road. A few steps lead down to an open court, in which there
is a fine porch of the Crusading period, the only part of the church above ground. The
chapel, which is about thirty-five feet below the court, is reached by a flight of marble steps.
On descending, a chapel on the right is said to contain the tombs of Joachim and Anna, the
parents of the Virgin, and an altar in a chapel to the left marks the last resting-place of
>
ENTRANCE TO THE CHAPEL OF THE TOMB OF THE VIRGIN.
In the valley of the Kedron. The lizards on the sunny wall are thoroughly characteristic of the place.
Joseph, the husband of Mary. The chapel, or subterranean church, is about ninety feet long
from east to west, and twenty feet wide. In the east arm there is a small shrine containing
the tomb of Mary, outside of which the Greeks and Armenians have each an altar. South of
the tomb there is a Moslem " mihrab," and in the western arm of the chapel, close to a large
cistern, the Abyssinians have erected an altar. The chapel is excavated in the rock, and in
forming it advantage appears to have been taken of a natural cavern, or possibly of an old