Can you visit the empty tomb of Jesus?

The Garden Tomb is open to visitors Monday through Saturday between 8:30 – 12:00 and 2:00 – 5:30pm. English tours are available but must be booked in advance. Visitors are serviced with good facilities which include toilets, drinking water, benches and a well stocked gift shop.



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The empty Tomb of Christ sits in the Rotunda in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. This holy place venerated for centuries marks the location where Jesus lay buried for three days, and where He rose from the dead.

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The Garden Tomb in Jerusalem. The Garden Tomb (Arabic: ????? ??? ??????, Hebrew: ?? ????, literally the Tomb Garden) is a Christian pilgrimage site in Jerusalem that contains an ancient tomb, also named the Garden Tomb, considered by some Protestants to be the empty tomb from whence Jesus of Nazareth resurrected.

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Entrance is free. The Garden is a place where faith in the crucified, risen Lord is renewed or begun and lives transformed. The Team looks forward to welcoming you to the Garden Tomb.

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For the first time in at least 500 years, archaeologists removed the marble covering from Jesus Christ's supposed burial bed. The unveiling was part of a $4 million effort to restore the Edicule, a structure within Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre that houses the gravesite.

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Three different Christian denominations — Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian Orthodox — share custody over the Holy Sepulchre and in the past there have been turf wars and brawls over the management of the site. But they agreed to set aside their differences to save what they all believe is Christ's tomb.

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Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Basilica of the Resurrection, is home to the Edicule shrine encasing the ancient cave where, according to Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian belief, Jesus' body was entombed and resurrected.

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The cave of Machpelah, in the West Bank city of Hebron, is the burial place of the Matriarchs and Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah. According to Jewish mystical tradition, it's also the entrance to the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve are buried.

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Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also called Holy Sepulchre, church built on the traditional site of Jesus' Crucifixion and burial. According to the Bible (John 19:41–42), his tomb was close to the place of the Crucifixion, and so the church was planned to enclose the site of both the cross and the tomb.

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