Immovable Ladder

31°46′41.9″N 35°13′47.5″E / 31.778306°N 35.229861°E / 31.778306; 35.229861

The Immovable Ladder is a wooden ladder leaning against a window of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem, protected from removal or alteration under the law of the Status Quo. The ladder rests on a ledge and is attached to the right window of the second tier of the facade, owned by the Armenian Apostolic Church. It is used as a symbol of inter-confessional disputes within Christianity.^[1] Its presence in its current location signifies the adherence to an agreement among six Christian denominations, who collectively own the church, not to move, repair, or alter anything in the church without the consent of all six denominations.