The altar was used by the Catholic clergy to celebrate mass until the Crusaders left Jerusalem. Afterward it was used by the Greek Orthodox church until it was damaged in a fire in 1808.
A medieval altar, apparently long forgotten, has been rediscovered at the supposed site of Jesus Christ's crucifixion. Recent excavations on Jerusalem's Church of the.
Researchers at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem moved a graffiti-covered stone slab and found it was an elegant, luxurious spiral-covered medieval altar.
By Rinat Harash JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Pressed against a wall in a back corridor of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a stone slab bore testimo.