And they all call themselves "Christians" . The Western wall has nothing to do with Christianity
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I have actually visited Israel before and been to both the Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. You can absolutely go inside, you can take pictures, and just like at the wall, there are places for prayers and photo ops, but they look much nicer because the Church is beautiful. Our rulers just don't care about Christianity as much as they care about the Jews.
But inside that inner church? Are photos allowed? How does Israel regulate visitation. I know plenty of Christians have gotten pissed off at not being able to access holy sites, or even being attacked trying to visit them.
Yes photos are allowed, at least they were when I was there less than a decade ago. There is a whole bunch of politics over who runs things with the church specifically, because so many different denominations are involved, and when I was last there they even had to compromise and have the Armenians (there is a whole quarter in the old city for them) deal with opening and closing the doors. There are a lot of weird rules about who is allowed to do what that pertain to the church leadership and how its run, but people can just enter the church. Israelis have attacked people outside of the church, but that's not like a law, that's just Jews being assholes to Christians.