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The Garden Tomb is a peaceful garden outside the Old City walls with an ancient rock-cut tomb, honored by many Protestants as a place to remember the resurrection.
Just outside the Damascus Gate lies a calm garden with a rocky escarpment and an ancient tomb cut into the stone. In the nineteenth century some identified this as a possible site of the crucifixion and burial, and it has been a beloved place of worship ever since.
It is green, quiet, and unhurried, a striking contrast to the grandeur of the Holy Sepulchre. Both places point to the same event.
Because its garden setting and simplicity make it ideal for quiet communion and worship together.
The empty tomb here, whether or not it is the exact spot, preaches the same message. "He is not here; he has risen." (Luke 24:6) The stillness of the garden gives groups room to sing, pray, and take communion together in the open air.
For many pilgrims this becomes the most cherished worship moment of the entire journey.
Just outside the Damascus Gate, a short walk north of the Old City of Jerusalem.
It is one of two traditions. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre holds the older and more widely accepted claim. The Garden Tomb is valued mostly for its atmosphere of worship rather than as a rival claim.
Yes. It is one of the best places in Jerusalem for a group communion or worship service, and AJET can arrange it.
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