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Title: "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land ...
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Newman, John Philip, Bp., 1826-1899
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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300 feet in lengtheast and west, and of a transept extending north and south180 feet. The ceiling is eighty feet high. Excepting the ro-tunda, the nave contains the magnificent chapel of the Greeks,measuring ninety-eight feet in length and forty in width, Avhichis a church within a church. The walls are of wood, carvedand gilded, reaching to the lofty ceiling above. The entranceis in the western end, beneath a pointed arch, now filled witha heavy screen, serving as a massive door. From four largepiers within, fifty-two feet high, spring noble arches, support-ing the central dome. In the eastern end is the gorgeous highaltar, the throne of the Greek patriarchs, and on either side arestalls for the choral singers. Behind the throne, formed by awooden screen, is the robing-room for the jiriests, those eccle-siastical actors of a corrupted Christianity. Nothing can ex-cel the gorgeous decorations of the interior, which is adornedaccording to the barbaric taste of the Greeks. The sides of
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VIEW OF THE WJL\ BElULCUEE. FKOM DAN TO BEEKSHEBA. 143 their chapel are elaborately carved and gilded; from columnand ceiling depend lamps and chandeliers of gold, and ostricheggs curiously ornamented; while on pier and screen are rudepictures of the Byzantine style. Rising from the marble floor,in~the very centre of the chapel, is a marble column, inclosedwith an iron railing, marking the centre of the earth, and theidentical spot from which was taken the red clay for the form-ation of Adams body. At the western end of this chapel is the great rotunda ofthe church, measuring ninety-nine feet in diameter, encircledby eighteen colossal piers, supporting a clere-story pierced withwindows, above which is the majestic dome, a hundred feetfrom the pavement below, with a circular opening in the topfor light and ventilation, similar to the ajjerture in the domeof the Pantheon in Rome. In the veiy centre of this rotunda,and directly beneath the dome, is the reputed sepulchre of ourLord. In fo

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