Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, revered in Christian tradition as the site of Jesus’s crucifixion and burial, was ordered closed on Wednesday for a week, as a precaution against the coronavirus, church officials said. “The Church of the Holy Sepulchre will be closed from 5p.m. on Wednesday,” Wadie Abu Nassar, media spokesperson of the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land, told Reuters. Read more: Coronavirus: Jerusalem’s Sepulchre church urges worshippers to keep distance Alarm in the Holy Land after visit by South Korean pilgrims with coronavirus He said the decision followed a meeting between Israeli police and senior church leaders on Wednesday. “Of course the church leaders expressed understanding. The initial understanding is that this order is valid for one week, although nobody knows how long this crisis will take,” he said. Read the latest updates in our dedicated coronavirus section. اي استفسار أو طلب خاص بخصوص التوظيف يمكنك التواصل مع الابميل التالي – مجير الموقع : alturky28@gmail.com لطلبات التصميم او البرمجة التواصل مع : hamzalaabar@gmail.com The post Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre closed due to coronavirus outbreak appeared first on السعودية وطن.