The word 'sepulchre' is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to a particularly large tomb or burial chamber, often built with elaborate decorations. For example, "The Pharaohs of old were buried in great sepulchres, built to honor their memory and mark their final resting place."
Some historians hold that the tomb scene in Romeo and Juliet, with its "stony" sepulchre in which the tragic lovers end their lives, has similarities to the decaying, tomb-crowded interior of the church.
Christians, from beggars to princes, believed passionately in the saving power of sacraments, which only the church could administer, and in the sanctity of the holy sepulchre.
Rapt exalted, he celebrated mass before the tomb.Immediately afterwards he entered the sepulchre and laid a golden olive branch there.
At Hebron Abraham purchased the Cave of Machpelah (Hebrew: Meʿarat ha-Makhpelah) as a burial place for his wife, Sarah, from Ephron the Hittite (Genesis 23); this became a family sepulchre.
He was buried in a small tomb hastily converted for his use in the Valley of the Kings (his intended sepulchre was probably taken over by Ay).
In the crypt is the sepulchre of St. Matthew, whose body, according to legend, was brought to Salerno in the 10th century.
Many Roman epitaphs included a denunciation on any who should violate the sepulchre; a similar later denunciation is found on William Shakespeare's tomb: Good friend, for Jesus's sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here; Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
His body was sent to Pompey, who buried it in the royal sepulchre at Sinope, the Pontic capital.
Taken from various sources in the Bible, it dramatizes the visit of the three Marys to the tomb where Christ's body had been buried, only to find the sepulchre empty and an angel guarding it.
For the local Christians and pilgrims from many countries who crowd into the Sepulchre for the ritual, it's a powerful, exhilarating experience and also a little frightening.
