The Garden Tomb

A military man by the name of Gordon in the late 1800’s looked at the following rock outcropping and saw the face of a skull:

No doubt dissatisfied with the Church of the Holy Sepulcher as the setting for the crucifixion and burial of Jesus, and also noting that it was inside the walls (as a previous page notes, the current wall is not the original wall. The church was outside the wall at that time).

Gordon found a tomb near this outcropping that looks like a skull (Golgotha is Aramaic for place of a skull). Here is the tomb:

This tomb is in a garden.

It is unlikely that this is the site of Jesus’ death and burial, but most would agree it has the right atmosphere for it.