Church of the Resurrection

Resurrection Church, which is located in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem, which is the most famous Christian holy places in Jerusalem and not by, but at the level of the whole world.The Church of the Resurrection built by Queen Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine the Great, and stayed the construction of ten years and launched the Church of the Resurrection in 335 AD, and since that time until today represent the Christian pilgrimage.
When he opened the faithful Omar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) Jerusalem in 15 AH / 636 AD, gave the safety of her family, and visited the Church of the Resurrection has come the time to pray is in the church, he recalled the patriarch Sophronius to pray where he was, but the caliph apologized and prayed outside the church for fear that Muslims are turning it into a mosque after him.
In addition to the religious and theological significance of the Church of the Resurrection when the Christians of the world, replete with church architecture scenes aesthetic, they are bright model for the advancement of architecture and engineering and is still visible to this day splendor borne in front of viewers. The church also represents a unique architectural intermarriage between different art schools, especially in the eastern and western.
The Church of the Resurrection large architectural complex, which oversaw the building of the church and engineered Znobios, Engineer Arab destruction. And the length of the church about eighty meters and sixty-six meters.
The Church of the Resurrection in thirteen wells which collects rainwater.
It was home to the church in the past, takes off his shoes, and it appears that this practice ended in the early nineteenth century.
The key to the Church of the Resurrection since ancient times until today, however Mekdsaatin two families, two of each quality (Al Gdah), who are faithful to the church key, and the second family is the task of Nusseibeh, who opened and closed the church. At the very least these two families is the job for more than eight centuries