Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Israel

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 531.

Religious tourism (holy places)

Travel for religious purposes - the oldest form of tourism, which has deep historical roots. One of the first tourists were certainly medieval pilgrims. In view of religious belief or curiosity about his or anyone else's faith, people around the world travel to visit the Holy Land, Vatican City, Mecca, monasteries and other holy places.
Despite the fact that curiosity is the last item among the reasons for the popularity of religious tourism, it is by no means unimportant. Many tourists, following on the classic religious routes, visiting holy places, driven not so much faith, how much curiosity. Which, incidentally, does not negate the effectiveness of any prayer, nor the impact of such places on health and the human psyche. Often happened that a pretty weak in the faith of people who visited the Holy Sepulcher just out of curiosity, finds and faith and meaning in life, if not healed physically, spiritually, and quite frankly cried, clinging to a stone slab, polished touches many hands of believers . So, I want to present you top-5 Holy Places in the world.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also called the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, or the Church of the Resurrection by Eastern Christians, is a church within the Christian Quarter of the walled Old City of Jerusalem. It is a few steps away from the Muristan

The site is venerated as Golgotha (the Hill of Calvary), where Jesus was crucified, and is said also to contain the place where Jesus was buried (the Sepulchre). The church has been a paramount – and for many Christians the most important – pilgrimage destination since at least the 4th century, as the purported site of the resurrection of Jesus. Today it also serves as the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, while control of the building is shared between several Christian churches and secular entities in complicated arrangements essentially unchanged for centuries. Today, the church is home to Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism. Anglican, Nontrinitarian and Protestant Christians have no permanent presence in the church – and some regard the alternative Garden Tomb, elsewhere in Jerusalem, as the true place of Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection.