Editing Church of the Holy Sepulchre (section)

===Stone of Anointing===
[[File:Mosaic of the Unction (2666976195).jpg|thumb|Mosaic depiction of Christ's body being prepared after his death, opposite the Stone of Anointing]]
[[File:Jerusalem Holy Sepulchre BW 12.JPG|thumb|upright|The Stone of Anointing, where Jesus's body is said to have been anointed before burial]]

Just inside the entrance to the church is the [[:commons:Category:Stone of Anointing|Stone of Anointing]] (also Stone of the Anointing or Stone of Unction), which tradition holds to be where Jesus's body was prepared for burial by [[Joseph of Arimathea]], though this tradition is only attested since the crusader era (notably by the Italian [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] pilgrim [[Riccoldo da Monte di Croce]] in 1288), and the present stone was only added in the 1810 reconstruction.<ref name="Murphy56"/>

The wall behind the stone is defined by its striking blue balconies and [[:commons:Category:Taphos symbol|taphos symbol]]-bearing red banners (depicting the insignia of the [[Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre]]), and is decorated with lamps. [[:commons:Category:Mosaic at the Stone of Anointing|The modern mosaic]] along the wall depicts the anointing of Jesus's body, preceded on the right by the [[Descent from the Cross]], and succeeded on the left by the [[Burial of Jesus]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Stone of Anointing – Madain Project (en)|url=https://madainproject.com/stone_of_anointing|website=madainproject.com|access-date=23 May 2020|archive-date=8 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308204340/https://madainproject.com/stone_of_anointing|url-status=live}}</ref>

The wall was a temporary addition to support the arch above it, which had been weakened after the damage in the 1808 fire; it blocks the view of the rotunda, separates the entrance from the [[#Catholicon|catholicon]], sits on top of four of the now empty and desecrated [[#Royal tombs|Crusader graves]]<ref name=Pringle39>{{cite book |last=Pringle |first=Denys |title=The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem |date=1993 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume=3 |isbn=978-0-521-39038-5 |page=39 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X0jH6VPi4-gC&pg=PA65 |access-date=30 September 2022 |archive-date=8 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108060209/https://books.google.com/books?id=X0jH6VPi4-gC&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }} [On the map: from west: h, g, f, e: graves of Baldwin V, Baldwin IV, Amuary I, and Baldwin III]</ref> and is no longer structurally necessary. Opinions differ as to whether it is to be seen as [[Stations of the Cross|the 13th Station of the Cross]], which others identify as the [[Descent from the Cross|lowering of Jesus from the cross]] and located between the 11th and 12th stations on [[#Calvary|Calvary]].<ref name=":0" />

The lamps that hang over the Stone of Unction, adorned with cross-bearing chain links, are contributed by Armenians, [[Copts]], Greeks and [[Western Christianity|Latins]].<ref name=":0" />

Immediately inside and to the left of the entrance is [[:commons:Category:Divan (Church of the Holy Sepulchre)|a bench]] (formerly a [[divan (furniture)|divan]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopædia Metropolitana |date=1852 |page=307 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-f0IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA307 |author1=Encyclopaedia |access-date=30 September 2022 |archive-date=10 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310112252/https://books.google.com/books?id=-f0IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA307#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> that has traditionally been used by the church's Muslim doorkeepers, along with some Christian clergy, as well as electrical wiring. To the right of the entrance is a wall along the [[#Ambulatory|ambulatory]] containing the staircase leading to [[#Golgotha|Golgotha]]. Further along the same wall is the entrance to the [[#Chapel of Adam|Chapel of Adam]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2016}}