The Garden Tomb
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The Garden Tomb 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 tradition according to which the death and resurrection of Jesus occurred at a site known as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Garden Tomb is adjacent to a rocky knoll known as Skull Hill. In the mid-nineteenth century, some Christian scholars proposed that Skull Hill is Golgotha, where the Romans crucified Jesus. Accordingly, the Garden Tomb draws hundreds of thousands of annual visitors, especially Evangelicals and other Protestants.
The Garden Tomb in Jerusalem.
A sketch of Skull Hill created in 1889 by B. H. Harris. The caption below it reads: THE GREEN HILL, FROM THE CITY WALL; Jeremiah's Grotto.
Skull Hill as seen in 1901 from the northern walls of Jerusalem's Old City.
A view of Jeremiah's Grotto and Skull Hill from the south c. 1900
Calvary
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Calvary or Golgotha was a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where, according to Christianity's four canonical gospels, Jesus was crucified.
Traditional site of Golgotha in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
The altar at the traditional site of Golgotha
Chapel of Mount Calvary, painted by Luigi Mayer
Pilgrims queue to touch the rock of Calvary in Chapel of the Crucifixion