Calvary
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Calvary or Golgotha, derived from Golgolta, was a site immediately outside Roman 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
Garden Tomb
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The Garden Tomb is an ancient rock-cut tomb surrounded by a garden, right outside the walls of ancient Jerusalem, that functions as a site of Christian pilgrimage attracting hundreds of thousands of a
The entrance to the rock-cut tomb
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