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PRESENTATION OF RESTORATION PROJECT ON THE HOLY AEDICULA AT YAD IZHAK BEN ZVI INSTITUTE

At noon on Wednesday, the 13th/26th of October 2016, Ms Antonia Moropoulou, Professor at the National Technical University of Athens, presented the successful ongoing project of conservation and restoration of the Aedicula of the Holy Sepulchre along its various phases, aspects and perspectives, in the presence of His Beatitude Theophilos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Archbishop Aristarchos of Constantina, at the Yad Izhak Ben Ζvi Institute in West Jerusalem. Ms Moropoulou was invited to speak on the first day of deliberations of the Tenth Annual New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and its Environs Conference. Her presentation was titled ‘Sustainable Rehabilitation of the Holy Sepulcher. An Interdisciplinary Scientific Study and Monitoring, a Scientific Integrated Governance of the Project᾽. The relevant video will be uploaded soon.

From the Secretariat-General