The Garden Tomb is located beside the Nablus Road (Derech Shchem), close to the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. after it’s discovery in 1867 and it has subsequently been considered by some Christians to be the site of the burial and resurrection of Jesus. It is adjacent to a rocky escarpment which some people believe to be to be Golgotha. It is also known as Skull Hill or Gordon’s Calvary.
Golgotha is referred to in early writings as a hill resembling a skullcap located very near to a gate into Jerusalem. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre has its tomb just a few yards away from its Golgotha, corresponding with the account of John the Evangelist: “Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.”
According to the Garden Tomb Association, it only maintains this place as a possible site for Christ’s burial. The tomb, which was discovered in 1867 and is especially popular with Protestants as a place of devotion. On the other hand, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, seems to have attracted Christian devotion since before Constantine the Great, thus making it more authentic.
Here, the Crusaders lowered the rock surface in front of the tomb, built vaults against it, and used the site as stable. An ancient wine press and cistern have been cited as evidence that the area had once been a garden in the past.