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Saving the Holy Sepulchre
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is the mother of all the churches, erected on the spot where Jesus Christ was crucified and rose from the dead and where every Christian was born. In 1927, Jerusalem was struck by a powerful earthquake, and for decades this venerable structure stood perilously close to collapse. This book tells the engaging story of how three major Christian traditions — Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Armenian Orthodox — each with jealously guarded claims to the church, struggled to restore one of the great shrines of civilization. For centuries the communities had lived together in an atmosphere of tension and mistrust based on differences of theology, language, and culture — differences so sharp that fistfights were not uncommon. And the project of restoration became embroiled in inter-church disputes and great power politics. The author shows how the repair of the dilapidated basilica was the result of unprecedented cooperation among the three churches. Thanks to the dedicated efforts of a cast of kings, popes, patriarchs, governors, monks, and architects, the deadlock was eventually broken on the eve of Pope Paul VI's historic pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1964. Today, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in better shape than it has been for five hundred years. Light and space have returned to its ancient halls, and its walls and pillars stand sound and true. This book is the riveting story of how Christians put aside centuries of division to make this dream a reality.
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Modern Typologies as Spaces of Inter-Religious Engagement in British-Mandate Jerusalem, 1917–1938
The architecture of Jerusalem has for centuries been defined by its being a space sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The end of World War I marked the beginning of British Mandatory rule, which lasted until 1948. During this period, Jerusalem witnessed a proliferation of architectural projects that repositioned religion within modern typologies representing the city’s communities. This research investigates four such buildings: the British Rockefeller Museum, the Palestinian Palace Hotel, the American YMCA Building, which functioned as a community center and hostel, and the new Zionist Executive Building. The integration of religious elements into these edifices is examined using the concept of inter-religious engagement and by applying the theory of purification and hybridization. The research demonstrates that British and American Christians, Zionist Jews, and Muslim Palestinians, used different strategies to produce inter-religious engagement—either intentionally or because of British-dictated political constructs. British and American Christians embedded religious elements within modern typologies to reflect peaceful co-existence, while Zionist Jews and Muslim Palestinians used them to construct national identity. Although conceived as “purely” secular, these modern typologies were hybridized by the integration of religious spaces or emblems, revealing further dimensions to our understanding and assessment of 20th-century urban secular architecture and its intersection with religions.
Journal Article
Secular buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem : an archaeological gazetteer
This text contains a descriptive gazetteer of all the secular buildings (including industrial sites) known by their surviving remains to have existed within the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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