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Garden Tomb

The Garden Tomb is an ancient rock-cut tomb in that functions as a site of Christian pilgrimage attracting hundreds of thousands of annual visitors, especially Evangelicals and other Protestants, as some Protestant Christians consider it to be the empty tomb where Jesus of Nazareth resurrected.
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  • Type: Church
  • Description: antique tomb in Jerusalem, considered by some to be the tomb of Jesus
  • Also known as: “The Garden Tomb”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Damascus Gate and St. Stephen’s Basilica (Dominican).

Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is one of the main Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem.It is located in the wall on the city's northwest side and connects to a highway leading out to , which in the Hebrew Bible was called Shechem or Sichem, and from there, in times… is situated 260 metres south of Garden Tomb.

Church
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The St. Stephen's Basilica or simply the Church of St. Stephen, also known by its French name, Saint-Étienne, is the name given to a Catholic church located outside the walls of the , on the road leading north to Nablus.

College
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École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, commonly known as École Biblique, is a French academic establishment in specializing in archaeology and Biblical exegesis. is situated 120 metres north of Garden Tomb.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bab az-Zahra and East Jerusalem.

Suburb
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is an Arab neighborhood in , north of the . It is bordered by the American Colony to the north, to the east, and on its south, and Mas'udiyyah and to the west.

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is the part of Jerusalem that belongs to the Palestinian territories. The walled is formally part of it, but is discussed in its own article.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four sectors of the ancient, walled . It covers 31 hectares of the northeastern sector of the Old City.

Garden Tomb

Latitude
31.78402° or 31° 47′ 3″ north
Longitude
35.2302° or 35° 13′ 49″ east
Open location code
8G3QQ6MJ+J3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 329348517
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Wiki­data ID
Q1494672
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Tamil—“Garden Tomb” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بستان قبر السيد المسيح”
  • Basque: “Lorategiko hilobia”
  • Catalan: “tomba del Jardí”
  • Chechen: “Бешан каш”
  • Chinese: “花园塚”
  • Chinese: “花園墓”
  • Czech: “Zahradní hrob”
  • Danish: “Havegrav”
  • Dutch: “Tuingraf”
  • Finnish: “Puutarhahauta”
  • French: “Calvaire de Gordon”
  • French: “Tombeau du jardin”
  • Galician: “Tumba do xardín”
  • German: “Gartengrab”
  • Greek: “Τάφος του Κήπου”
  • Hebrew: “גן הקבר”
  • Hebrew: “קבר הגן”
  • Hindi: “मकबरे का बगीचा”
  • Indonesian: “Taman Makam”
  • Japanese: “園の墓”
  • Macedonian: “Градинарски гроб”
  • Malagasy: “Fasan‘ ny Zaridaina”
  • Malagasy: “Fasan’ ny Zaridaina”
  • Maltese: “Qabar tal-Ġnien”
  • Polish: “Grób w Ogrodzie”
  • Portuguese: “Tumba do Jardim”
  • Russian: “Голгофа Гордона”
  • Russian: “Садовая гробница”
  • Russian: “Садовая могила”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “tuama a’ ghàrraidh”
  • Slovenian: “grob v vrtu”
  • Slovenian: “Grob v vrtu”
  • Spanish: “Tumba del jardin”
  • Spanish: “Tumba del jardín”
  • Tamil: “தோட்டக் கல்லறை”

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