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The Garden Tomb (Arabic: بستان قبر المسيح, Hebrew: גן הקבר, literally "the Tomb Garden") is a Christian pilgrimage site in Jerusalem that contains an ancient tomb, also named the Garden Tomb, considered by some Protestants to be the empty tomb whence Jesus of Nazareth resurrected. This belief contrasts with an older ...
The Talpiot Tomb (or Talpiyot Tomb) is a rock-cut tomb discovered in 1980 in the East Talpiot neighborhood, five kilometers (three miles) south of the Old City in East Jerusalem. It contained ten ossuaries, six inscribed with epigraphs, including one interpreted as " Yeshua bar Yehosef " ("Jeshua, son of Joseph"), although the inscription is ...
Remnants of the Monolith of Silwan, a First Temple period tomb. The so-called Garden Tomb (9th–7th century BCE). The Silwan necropolis, the most important cemetery of the First Temple period, is located in the Kidron Valley across from the City of David, in the lower part of the ridge where the village of Silwan now stands.
According to the Midrash, the Patriarchs were buried in the cave because the cave is the threshold to the Garden of Eden. The Patriarchs are said not to be dead but "sleeping". They rise to beg mercy for their children throughout the generations. According to the Zohar, [81] this tomb is the gateway through which souls enter into Gan Eden (heaven).
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, [ a ] also known as the Church of the Resurrection, [ b ] is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The church is also the seat of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. [ 1 ] It is considered the holiest site in Christianity and has been the most important ...
The bedrock where Jesus is believed to have prayed. The Church of All Nations, also known as the Church of Gethsemane [1] or the Basilica of the Agony, is a Catholic church located on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, next to the Garden of Gethsemane. It enshrines a section of bedrock where Jesus is said to have prayed before his arrest.
Calvary. Coordinates: 31°46′43″N 35°13′46″E. Traditional site of Golgotha in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Calvary ( Latin: Calvariae or Calvariae locus) or Golgotha ( Biblical Greek: Γολγοθᾶ, romanized: Golgothâ) was a site immediately outside Jerusalem 's walls where, according to Christianity's four canonical gospels ...
Gethsemane. Gethsemane ( / ɡɛθˈsɛməni /) [ a] is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion. It is a place of great resonance in Christianity. There are several small olive ...