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Immovable Ladder
31°46′41.9″N 35°13′47.5″E / 31.778306°N 35.229861°E The Immovable Ladder is a wooden ladder leaning against the right window on the second tier of the facade of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem. The ladder rests on a ledge and is attached to a window owned by the Armenian Apostolic Church.
In 1719, the Franciscans achieved a diplomatic victory,[3] as a special decree from the Sultan allowed them to independently, without the involvement of other Christian denominations, carry out restoration work in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. [5] However, Israeli writer Amos Elon claims in his book[6] that the ladder belongs to the Greek Orthodox Church and must remain in place due to the strict adherence to the "Status Quo". Entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 1881–1884, engraving from a drawing by Charles William Wilson.Religious festival, photograph, 1890.One theory suggests that Armenian monks used the cornice and ladder to hoist water and provisions using a rope.
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