After 200 Years, Jesus' Tomb was Restored with Rp 53 M Fund

A shrine that is believed to be the tomb of Jesus Christ was dressed up - as beautiful as his appearance in his past - after undergoing renovations worth US $ 4 million or worth Rp 53 billion.
Just before Easter, the Greek restoration team had completed a historic renovation on Edicule, a prayer hall traditionally cited as the cave where Jesus was buried and ascended to heaven.
The messy iron fence built by British rulers in 1947 was gone. Similarly black soot is attached to the front of the altar caused by the burning of candles by pilgrims for decades.

Pupus is also a concern about the stability of old worship rooms that have not been restored for more than 200 years.
Quoted from News.com.au on Wednesday (22/3/2017), Bonnie Burnham of World Monuments Fund said, "If the intervention is not done now, there is a huge risk the place will collapse."
"This is a complete transformation of the monument."
The institute provides an initial funding of US $ 1.4 million of the total restoration worth US $ 4 million, including donations from the founder of record label Atlantic Records.
King Abdullah II of Jordan and President Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine each contributed about 150 thousand euros, coupled with private donations and churches, according to Burnham.
The structure of limestone and marble stands at the center of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. It is one of the oldest churches in the world and is a 12th century building built on the ruins of the 4th century.
The place of worship requires urgent attention after years of exposure to environmental factors that can damage such as water, moisture - as well as the wax smoke that pilgrims light up.


In 2015, Israeli police briefly closed the building after the Zionist authorities of the Antiquities Authority found it unsafe. The restoration began in June 2016. The restoration team from National Technical University of Athens cleared the stone plates from the worship room and patched the inner rocks by injecting some tubes of semen to strengthen. Each stone plate was cleansed from the candle soot and pigeon's faeces, then returned to its place Scrap made of titanium diol into the structure for reinforcement and painting and painted dome there is given a new coating.