イスラエル五番目：イエス・クリスト

A place of hushed murmuring, candles and cold stone; site of Christ's sepulchre.

A place as holy as this, in a city as contested as Jerusalem, is naturally a hotspot of religious one-upmanship. I heard it operated on a kind of time-share system, where each respective sect gets to do their necessary ablutions in rotation.

Ohad told a tale of one sect barricading itself in and changing all the locks overnight. The police were summoned, but were powerless as they couldn't damage a protected building! Drawn-out negotiations led to a resolution, but it's an apt illustration of the constant sectarian tensions at work.

Depicted: The slab where Jesus was laid out prior to burial; The sepulchre; The roof.