NYT
JERUSALEM
— It was a typical day at the shrine around what many believe is the
tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem’s Old City. A Greek Orthodox choir sang
inside a room facing the baroque structure. But the voices were drowned
out when chanting Armenian priests and monks circling the shrine raised
theirs.
“Sometimes they punch each other,” Farah Atallah, a church guard wearing a fez, observed with a shrug.
Mr.
Atallah is a seasoned witness to the rivalries among the Greek
Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox and Roman Catholic communities that
jealously share — and sometimes spar over — what they consider
Christianity’s holiest site, inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
Amid
the rivalry, the unsteady 206-year-old structure, held together by a
69-year-old iron cage, is an uncomfortable, often embarrassing symbol of
Christian divisions, which have periodically erupted into tensions. In 2008, monks and priests brawled
near the shrine, throwing punches and pulling one another’s hair not
far from the tomb where Christians believe Jesus was resurrected.
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