Memorial Church of the Holy Sepulchre

by Jean Wright

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Memorial Church of the Holy Sepulchre

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Jean Wright

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This is a view of the interior of the Memorial Church of the Holy Sepulchre at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America in Washington, DC. A bit of the Holy Land is embodied by this Byzantine-style monastery in NE Washington, D.C. The floor plan of the church is the five-fold Crusader Cross of Jerusalem, and it is built in the Byzantine style, after the Hagia Sofia in Constantinople (an Eastern Orthodox church in Istanbul) with some modified Romanesque influences and is surrounded by beautiful gardens. The church contains replicas of many of the shrines in The Holy Land as well as the catacombs of Rome.

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October 25th, 2014

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