The Garden Tomb. Also known as Gordon's Calvary. Jerusalem גן הקבר ירושלים

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The Garden Tomb (also known as Gordon's Calvary),[1] located in Jerusalem, outside the city walls and close to the Damascus Gate, is a rock-cut tomb considered by some to be the site of the burial and resurrection of Jesus, and to be adjacent to Golgotha,[2] in contradistinction to the traditional site for these—the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. There is no mention of the Garden Tomb as the place of Jesus' burial before the nineteenth century

During the nineteenth century some doubts were raised concerning the authenticity of the traditional site, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:

Prior to Constantine's time, the site was a temple to Aphrodite, built by Hadrian.[3]
Archaeology suggests that the exact location claimed for the tomb would have been within Hadrian's Temple, or likely to have been destroyed under the temple's heavy retaining wall.[4][5]
The temple's location complies with the typical layout of Roman cities (i.e. adjacent to the Forum, at the intersection of the main north-south road with the main east-west road), rather than necessarily being a deliberate act of contempt for Christianity.
A spur would be required for the rockface to have included both the alleged site of the tomb and the tombs beyond the western end of the church.
First century Jewish leaders condemn the idea of burial to the west of the city,[6] a condemnation archaeologically corroborated by the locations of the known ancient Jewish graves.[7]
The site is currently within the Old City walls, and due to the heights of the terrain, it would be dangerous and unlikely, from a town-defense point of view, for the walls to have previously been east of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.[8]
The tombs at the west of the site, alleged to date from the first century, therefore indicating that the site was outside the city at that time, could just as easily date from centuries prior to that.[9]
Due to these issues, several nineteenth century scholars had rejected the traditional site's validity. Additionally many Protestants have often opposed the traditional location simply because it has previously received support from Roman Catholic Church, and is sited within an environment which is not low church.[10] Many of these concerns were aired in the time of Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB, and it is surmised that he, a Protestant, was motivated by them to look elsewhere.[citation needed]

In 1883, near to the Damascus Gate, General Gordon found a rocky escarpment (now situated just behind a Palestinian bus station), which from several angles resembled the face of a skull; since one of the possible etymologies for Golgotha is the Aramaic word for skull, and may refer to the shape of the place, Gordon concluded that the rocky escarpment was likely to have been Golgotha. Prior to Gordon, this possibility had also been suggested by Colonel Conder in 1870 (an associate of Lord Kitchener),[11] by Fisher Howe in 1871,[12] and by the German scholar Otto Thenius in 1842.[13]

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre has its tomb just a few yards away from its Golgotha, corresponding with the account of John the Evangalist: "Now in the place where he was crucified there was a ... new tomb" (John 19:41). In 1869 a number of tombs had also been found near Gordon's Golgotha, and Gordon concluded that one of them must have been the tomb of Jesus. John also specifies that Jesus' tomb was located in a garden;[14] consequently, an ancient wine press and cistern have been cited as evidence that the area had once been a garden, and the somewhat isolated tomb adjacent to the cistern has become identified as the Garden Tomb of Jesus. This particular tomb also has a stone groove running along the ground outside it, which Gordon argued to be a slot that once housed a stone, corresponding to the biblical account of a stone being rolled over the tomb entrance to close it.

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[VTECB16SiR]

this is very cool.. is this where jesus was crucified 

[zahi1221]

@VTECB16SiR Yes, according to the Protestant faith

[zahi1221]

Yes, according to the Protestant faith

[tuckerboxdog123]

@MsDaanxx i was raised in catholic faith. school, church the whole lot. i stopped going to church because things didn't add up, but i never lost my faith. in fact it became stronger. its just i don't have a church. if you believe in Jesus, he will help when you need it.

[MsDaanxx]

@tuckerboxdog123 :) I am a christian, at least, im raised as a christian ;) But im not so sure anymore, but that doesn't matter now. I think its great that you research things, i do also, but not as much as you do i guess :P. You said that 'the feeling i'll get when i visit the sites will tell me.' that's exactly what i did too.

[tuckerboxdog123]

@MsDaanxx if something dose'nt add up i like to research it. hence my view. i would love to go there and one day i hope to. a guide to tell me what actually happened, i don't think so. the feeling i'll get when i visit the sites will tell me. thats my faith. you sound like a christian. if you are may Jesus show you the way to the his Father.

[MsDaanxx]

@tuckerboxdog123 I read the bible, twice. But you know? faith isn't just called faith, you believe what you think that happened, you can't argue about that. Nobody know what exactly happend. So it's okay that you think that and that I think something else. But seriously, you should go there and hire a private guide who will show you all the spots and also tells about the spots, im sure you'll like it! And when you come back, i hope you are sure about what you think!

[tuckerboxdog123]

@MsDaanxx did you read the history of the site of the church? it was LEVELLED, FLATTENED, DEMOLISHED. three hundred years later they built the Holy Sepulchre church, thinking this was the crucificion site. they were duped like the muslim rulers before them. its a business now where people like your self,believe what they say .as i wrote , its in the bible [read it sometime] and for over 2000 years remains untouched.

[MsDaanxx]

@tuckerboxdog123 And that's exactly the reason why you are wrong and think that Jezus wasn't crucified there, if you go there, they'll show you that he is crucified there :).

[tuckerboxdog123]

@MsDaanxx  no

[MsDaanxx]

have you ever been at the Garden Tomb?