The Church of the Holy Sepulchre

According to the Bible, Christ was taken outside Jerusalem to a hill known as Golgotha, or Mt. Calvary as it is referred to now days, and put to death by crucification He was then buried in a nearby burial crypt. Today, the City of Jerusalem has spread far beyond its boundaries at the time of Christ and both Mt. Calvary and the burial crypt in which Christ was laid after being taken from the cross are located well within the confines of the modern city of Jerusalem. In fact a mere decade or so after the crucification...read more | digg story