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Where is Golgotha located?

The Christian Quarter is located in the northwestern part of Jerusalem. There is the main shrine of the Christian world - the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. It stands on the hill of Calvary, on which, according to legend, Christ was crucified. A modest gate leads to the temple. Immediately behind them is a low oblong slab, lined with marble today. According to legend, the body of Christ was placed here before burial.

In the center of a dark, majestic hall, the vault of which rests on many columns, stands a small chapel of pink marble, Kuvuklia, set up by the tomb of the Lord. The tomb itself is small - two meters long and one and a half meters wide. There is a marble tombstone embedded in the wall.

The entire Church of the Holy Sepulcher is divided into aisles belonging to different areas of Christianity. The place where the cross stood, on which Christ was crucified, marked with a silver disk with a hole in the middle, belongs to the Orthodox Church. The katholikon (the main building of the temple) also belongs to the Jerusalem Orthodox Church, it houses the center of the Earth (according to Christian tradition), marked by a small marble bowl with a ball inside, on which a cross is inscribed.

A staircase of 29 steps leads down from Golgotha to the Church of St. Helena. From this temple, 13 iron steps lead to the cave of Finding the Cross, where, according to legend, they found the cross on which Christ was crucified.

Under Golgotha there is also a chapel of the forefather Adam, the first man created by God. After being expelled from paradise, he settled in Jerusalem. Adam predicted that if Christ was crucified, the stone foundation of Golgotha would crack. In the chapel, through a glass window, a crevice is visible, which was allegedly formed during an earthquake that occurred during the execution of Christ.

Author: Cellarius E.Yu.

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