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The Immovable Ladder is an ordinary wooden ladder with an extraordinary history. It was placed under a window on the exterior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem and, due to a long-running feud, has remained there for close to three centuries. The Immovable Ladder has great symbolic value attached to it, as it has been commonly taken to signify the divisions within the Christian faith, in particular between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, as well as those within the Eastern Churches. This is even more poignant, considering the ladder’s location at the holiest site in Christendom. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"45347","attributes":{"alt":"1834 engraving of the entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. ","class":"media-image","height":"449","style":"width: 610px; height: 449px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] 1834