Hey everyone, Dylan here.

So today we're bringing you a story from Jerusalem,

but it's one that is decidedly not about current events.

Despite the horrors of this last month,

our hope is that we can still highlight stories from the region that inspire

curiosity and wonder. Okay, on with the show. In Jerusalem, there is a church called the

Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Its claim to fame is pretty significant.

It is supposedly the site where Jesus Christ was crucified and buried. So the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is easily one of the

holiest sites in Christianity, and it's been drawing religious pilgrims for around a thousand years.

The stone- flagged pavement is worn smooth by all the feet walking over the stone consistently millions upon millions of

millions of feet.

When you look up you see this church with a couple of archways and windows on an upper level away from the street.

And then your eye catches on something.

Just resting on the ledge below one of those windows is this little ladder. Now in a place

this super important, this historical, this wholly, the ladder seems a bit odd, a little out of place, in part because of just how normal it is.

It's a little wooden, you know, hand-built ladder five runs not very long quite wide it looks a bit sort of

rickety doesn't look very stable and it's just sitting on the on the ledge below this window

resting against the window sill above it. What is not so normal about this ladder

is that it hasn't been moved for at least 300 years.

I'm Delanturus and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today we're visiting the immovable latter of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

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