Background: Biblical significance was first attached to this site by General Charles Gordon in 1883. Gordon didn't believe that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre could occupy the site of Golgotha. He identified a skull-shaped hill just north of the Damascus Gate. He began excavations and found ancient tombs nearby. Archaeologists have since dated these tombs much later. The Church is so overladen that many have turned to this site because it has more of the "feel" of what it must have been like. One Catholic priest is reported to have said, "If the Garden Tomb is not the true site of the Lord's death and resurrection, it should have been."Note: Click on thumbnail for larger image.
Gordon's Calvary - "the place of the skull"
Group outside the Garden Tomb - "He is not here, for he is risen".
Garden Tomb Photos
Gordon's Calvary - "the place of the skull"
Group outside the Garden Tomb - "He is not here, for he is risen".
Inside the Garden Tomb, where the body was laid.