The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, one of Christianity’s holiest sites, is revered as the place where Jesus was crucified, buried, and resurrected. For centuries, it has been shared by multiple Christian denominations—Greek Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Roman Catholic, Coptic, Syriac, and Ethiopian—often leading to disputes over control of its sacred spaces. To maintain peace among them after recapturing Jerusalem in 1187, the Muslim leader Sultan Saladin entrusted the church’s keys