Calvary is often referred to as Golgotha, a place of the skull. In Greek it is ÎšÏ Î±Î½Î¯Î¿Ï… Τόπος (Kraníou Tópos) while in Latin, it is Calvariae Locus. The ...

Golgotha (along with Christ's tomb) is located within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the walled Old City of Jerusalem. I visited it in October 2014, as part of a pilgrimage party of five.

Golgotha to the Six Day War: ... and he became certain that this was the Golgotha (Calvary), the site of Jesus’s crucifixion described in the Gospels: “Carrying his own cross, ...

Calvary, where Jesus paid the price for your sins and mine. Calvary was a mighty high mountain. It wasn’t the nails that held Him to the cross, it was the love of God. God the Father could have ...

This ornate Romanesque/Baroque structure sits atop the traditional site of Golgotha where Jesus was purportedly crucified and buried. The church was dedicated in 335 C.E., having been commissioned ...

The site has had many names over the ages, depending on who was speaking: Golgotha, Calvary, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The 1,700-year-old church, on the spot where many Christians believe ...

The practice harks back to days when pilgrims to Jerusalem would retrace Jesus’ steps to Golgotha, also called Calvary, where the Gospels say his crucifixion took place. 1.

As his grandfather goes home from the mines while carrying a pick/cross in “Anthracite Fields/ Golgatha,” three crosses as at Calvary rise from the golden domes of an orthodox church.