Garden Tomb

The Garden Tomb is an ancient rock-cut tomb surrounded by a garden, right outside the walls of , that functions as a site of Christian pilgrimage attracting hundreds of thousands of annual visitors, especially Evangelicals and other , 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: “Tumba del jardin”, “Голгофа Гордона”, “Гробница в Градината”, “Садовая гробница”, and “קבר הגן”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: 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 Ukrainian—“Garden Tomb” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بستان قبر السيد المسيح”
  • Basque: “Lorategiko hilobia”
  • Bulgarian: “Градинска гробница”
  • 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”
  • Hindi: “मकबरे का बगीचा”
  • Indonesian: “Taman Makam”
  • Japanese: “園の墓”
  • Korean: “정원 무덤”
  • Macedonian: “Градинарски гроб”
  • Malagasy: “Fasan‘ ny Zaridaina”
  • Malagasy: “Fasan’ ny Zaridaina”
  • Maltese: “Qabar tal-Ġnien”
  • Polish: “Grób w Ogrodzie”
  • Portuguese: “Tumba do Jardim”
  • Russian: “Садовая могила”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “tuama a’ ghàrraidh”
  • Slovenian: “grob v vrtu”
  • Slovenian: “Grob v vrtu”
  • Spanish: “Tumba del jardín”
  • Tamil: “தோட்டக் கல்லறை”
  • Ukrainian: “Садова могила”

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Highlights: The Garden Tomb and Schmidt Schule.

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