Can you still visit Golgotha?

There are two sites you can visit to see where Jesus was crucified. The first is within the church building of the Church of the Sepulchre outside the second wall of Jerusalem in the Christian Quarter of the old city. The second site is known as Gordon's Calvary.



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Its exact location is uncertain, but most scholars prefer either the spot now covered by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre or a hillock called Gordon's Calvary just north of the Damascus Gate.

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While the Gospels merely identify Golgotha as a place, Christian tradition has described the location as a hill or mountain since at least the 6th century. It has thus often been referenced as Mount Calvary in English hymns and literature.

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Where is Golgotha? Just outside of Old Jerusalem's northern wall, near the Damascus gate, there is a rocky hill that bears the resemblance of a skull. Significant erosion has occurred over time and the bridge of the nose was washed away in a storm a few years ago. So, it looks less like a skull now than it did before.

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Khirbet Hanot is an archaeological site on the side of the main road from Beit Guvrin to Jerusalem. In the Byzantine period it was believed to mark the site where Goliath was buried.

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Its exact location is uncertain, but most scholars prefer either the spot now covered by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre or a hillock called Gordon's Calvary just north of the Damascus Gate.

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They have found the Ark of the Covenant, Christ tomb, and the Crucifixion site, buried under a trash pile at Golgotha (Skull Mountain) in Jerusalem. After being lost for over 2,600 years the Ark of the Covenant was found in Jeremiah's Cave (Grotto), directly below where Jesus was crucified.

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According to Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian belief, the Edicule encases the ancient cave where Jesus' body was entombed and resurrected. The Edicule shrine is built around the original cave; visitors can kneel before a marble niche that covers what is believed to be the bench where Jesus' body was placed.

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However, scholars began to question this identification in the 19th century, since the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is inside the city walls of the present-day Old City of Jerusalem. Golgotha would have to have been located outside the city in accordance with Roman and Jewish customs of the time.

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The French king Louis IX (St. Louis) took the relic to Paris about 1238 and had the Sainte-Chapelle built (1242–48) to house it. The thornless remains are kept in the treasury of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris; they survived a devastating fire in April 2019 that destroyed the church's roof and spire.

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