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Golgotha (Calvary)

Modern Traditional: Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. Alternative: Garden Tomb area
Coordinates 31.7783, 35.2298

The "place of a skull" where Jesus was crucified, just outside the city walls. The traditional site is preserved under the Church of the Holy Sepulchre; nineteenth-century Protestants proposed an alternative location north of the Damascus Gate ("Gordon's Calvary").

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