There has been a Church of the Holy Sepulcher on this spot for some 1,650 years, ever since Queen Helena (the mother of Emperor Constantine, who made Christianity the state religion of Rome) visited Jerusalem in a.d. 326 and identified Golgotha, the site of the crucifixion itself.
Queen Helena supported her son, though she herself never did convert to Christianity,
mnli hypothesis: Queen Helena supported her son, though she herself never did convert to Christianity, premise: There has been a Church of the Holy Sepulcher on this spot for some 1,650 years, ever since Queen Helena (the mother of Emperor Constantine, who made Christianity the state religion of Rome) visited Jerusalem in a.d. 326 and identified Golgotha, the site of the crucifixion itself.