<P> According to Eusebius of Caesarea , the Roman emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD built a temple dedicated to the goddess Venus in order to bury the cave in which Jesus had been buried . The first Christian emperor , Constantine the Great , ordered in about 325 / 326 that the temple be replaced by a church . During the building of the Church , Constantine 's mother , Helena , is believed to have rediscovered the tomb ( although there are some discrepancies among authors ) . Socrates Scholasticus ( born c. 380 ) , in his Ecclesiastical History , gives a full description of the discovery . </P>
<P> According to Eusebius of Caesarea , the Roman emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD built a temple dedicated to the goddess Venus in order to bury the cave in which Jesus had been buried . The first Christian emperor , Constantine the Great , ordered in about 325 / 326 that the temple be replaced by a church . During the building of the Church , Constantine 's mother , Helena , is believed to have rediscovered the tomb ( although there are some discrepancies among authors ) . Socrates Scholasticus ( born c. 380 ) , in his Ecclesiastical History , gives a full description of the discovery . </P>
who built the church of the holy sepulchre
who built the church of the holy sepulchre
Constantine the Great
Constantine the Great