One Image Tells You Everything About The State Of Religious Tension In Jerusalem
Jan 17, 2013, 03:56 IST
Located behind a bus station just outside the walls of the Old City, the rocky escarpment pictured above is believed by many Christians to be the Golgotha, or the Calvary, the skull-shaped hill where Jesus was said to have been crucified. The exact location of the Golgotha mentioned in the Bible is disputed by religious scholars and archaeologists — most Catholics and Orthodox Christians believe Jesus was crucified and buried at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, just a few yards away from the site pictured above. Since the 19th century, however, Protestants have venerated this rock, and the adjacent Garden Tomb, as the real site of the crucifixion, in large part due to its remarkable resemblance to a skull: Grace Wyler/Business Insider A closer look at the Golgotha reveals fresh clues about the perennial religious tensions plaguing the city. Six months ago, Jerusalem's Islamic Waqf, the trust that controls the city's Islamic holy sites, erected two signs on top of the Golgotha rock, part of its expansion of a two century-old Islamic cemetery. The first sign reads: Cemetery For The Islamic Mujahideen
