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Station 14 of the Calvary of the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption (Villamelendro de Valdavia)." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/14_-_Jesus_is_laid_in_the_tomb_and_covered_in_incense_-_Station_14_of_the_Calvary_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Asunci%C3%B3n_Church_%28Villamelendro_de_Valdavia%29.jpg/220px-14_-_Jesus_is_laid_in_the_tomb_and_covered_in_incense_-_Station_14_of_the_Calvary_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Asunci%C3%B3n_Church_%28Villamelendro_de_Valdavia%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/14_-_Jesus_is_laid_in_the_tomb_and_covered_in_incense_-_Station_14_of_the_Calvary_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Asunci%C3%B3n_Church_%28Villamelendro_de_Valdavia%29.jpg/330px-14_-_Jesus_is_laid_in_the_tomb_and_covered_in_incense_-_Station_14_of_the_Calvary_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Asunci%C3%B3n_Church_%28Villamelendro_de_Valdavia%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/14_-_Jesus_is_laid_in_the_tomb_and_covered_in_incense_-_Station_14_of_the_Calvary_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Asunci%C3%B3n_Church_%28Villamelendro_de_Valdavia%29.jpg/440px-14_-_Jesus_is_laid_in_the_tomb_and_covered_in_incense_-_Station_14_of_the_Calvary_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Asunci%C3%B3n_Church_%28Villamelendro_de_Valdavia%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1478" data-file-height="1328" /></a><figcaption>Jesus is laid in the tomb and covered in incense. Station 14 of the Calvary of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_the_Assumption,_Villamelendro_de_Valdavia" title="Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Villamelendro de Valdavia">Church of Our Lady of the Assumption</a> (<a href="/wiki/Villamelendro_de_Valdavia" title="Villamelendro de Valdavia">Villamelendro de Valdavia</a>).</figcaption></figure> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Gospel" title="Gospel">gospel</a> accounts, <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> was buried in a tomb which originally belonged to <a href="/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea" title="Joseph of Arimathea">Joseph of Arimathea</a>, a wealthy man who, believing Jesus was the <a href="/wiki/Messiah" title="Messiah">Messiah</a>, offered his own sepulcher for the <a href="/wiki/Burial_of_Jesus" title="Burial of Jesus">burial of Jesus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Possible locations for the tomb of Jesus include the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre" title="Church of the Holy Sepulchre">Church of the Holy Sepulchre</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Garden_Tomb" title="The Garden Tomb">the Garden Tomb</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre">Church of the Holy Sepulchre</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Church of the Holy Sepulchre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Golgotha_cross-section.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Golgotha_cross-section.svg/290px-Golgotha_cross-section.svg.png" decoding="async" width="290" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Golgotha_cross-section.svg/435px-Golgotha_cross-section.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Golgotha_cross-section.svg/580px-Golgotha_cross-section.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="548" data-file-height="419" /></a><figcaption>A diagram of the modern church showing the traditional site of <a href="/wiki/Calvary" title="Calvary">Calvary</a> and the Tomb of Jesus</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre" title="Church of the Holy Sepulchre">Church of the Holy Sepulchre</a> is a church in the <a href="/wiki/Christian_Quarter" title="Christian Quarter">Christian Quarter</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Old_City_(Jerusalem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Old City (Jerusalem)">Old City</a> of <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It contains, according to traditions dating back to the <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_the_4th_century" title="Christianity in the 4th century">fourth century</a>, the two holiest sites in Christianity: the site where Jesus was <a href="/wiki/Crucifixion_of_Jesus" title="Crucifixion of Jesus">crucified</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-mcmahon_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcmahon-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at a place known as <a href="/wiki/Calvary" title="Calvary">Calvary</a> (or Golgotha), and Jesus's <a href="/wiki/Empty_tomb" title="Empty tomb">empty tomb</a>, where he is believed by Christians to have been <a href="/wiki/Burial_of_Jesus" title="Burial of Jesus">buried</a> and <a href="/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">resurrected</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sacred_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sacred-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The marble covering protecting the original limestone slab upon which Jesus was thought to have been laid by Joseph of Arimathea was temporarily removed for restoration and cleaning on October 26, 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is just one of several arguments supporting the identification of tomb of Jesus at this site.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_the_Apocrypha">In the Apocrypha</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: In the Apocrypha"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Within the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament_Apocrypha" class="mw-redirect" title="New Testament Apocrypha">apocryphal</a> text known as the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Peter" title="Gospel of Peter">Gospel of Peter</a>, the tomb of Jesus is called "Joseph's garden".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_locations">Other locations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Other locations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Garden_Tomb">The Garden Tomb</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Garden Tomb"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Garden_Tomb_2008.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/The_Garden_Tomb_2008.jpg/220px-The_Garden_Tomb_2008.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/The_Garden_Tomb_2008.jpg/330px-The_Garden_Tomb_2008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/The_Garden_Tomb_2008.jpg/440px-The_Garden_Tomb_2008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="587" data-file-height="389" /></a><figcaption>The Garden Tomb in Jerusalem.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/The_Garden_Tomb" title="The Garden Tomb">The Garden Tomb</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Rock-cut_tombs_in_ancient_Israel" title="Rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel">rock-cut tomb in Jerusalem</a>, which was unearthed in 1867 and is considered by some <a href="/wiki/Protestants" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestants">Protestants</a> to be the tomb of Jesus. The tomb has been dated by Israeli archaeologist <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Barkay" title="Gabriel Barkay">Gabriel Barkay</a> to the 8th–7th centuries BC.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Talpiot_Tomb">Talpiot Tomb</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Talpiot Tomb"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Talpiot_Tomb" title="Talpiot Tomb">Talpiot Tomb</a> (or Talpiyot Tomb) is a <a href="/wiki/Rock-cut_tomb" title="Rock-cut tomb">rock-cut tomb</a> discovered in 1980 in the <a href="/wiki/East_Talpiot" title="East Talpiot">East Talpiot</a> neighborhood, five kilometers (three miles) south of the <a href="/wiki/Old_City_(Jerusalem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Old City (Jerusalem)">Old City</a> in <a href="/wiki/East_Jerusalem" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a>. It contained ten <a href="/wiki/Ossuary" title="Ossuary">ossuaries</a>, six inscribed with <a href="/wiki/Epigraphy" title="Epigraphy">epigraphs</a>, including one interpreted as "<i>Yeshua bar Yehosef</i>" ("Jeshua, son of Joseph"), although the inscription is partially illegible, and its translation and interpretation is widely disputed.<sup id="cite_ref-heiser_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-heiser-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is widely believed by scholars that the Jesus in Talpiot (if this is indeed his name) is not Jesus of Nazareth, but a person with the same name, since he appears to have a son named Judas (buried next to him) and the tomb shows signs of belonging to a wealthy Judean family, while Jesus came from a low-class Galilean family.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roza_Bal">Roza Bal</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Roza Bal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Roza_Bal_Tomb_in_Srinagar_Kashmir.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Roza_Bal_Tomb_in_Srinagar_Kashmir.jpg/220px-Roza_Bal_Tomb_in_Srinagar_Kashmir.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="262" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Roza_Bal_Tomb_in_Srinagar_Kashmir.jpg/330px-Roza_Bal_Tomb_in_Srinagar_Kashmir.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Roza_Bal_Tomb_in_Srinagar_Kashmir.jpg/440px-Roza_Bal_Tomb_in_Srinagar_Kashmir.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1528" data-file-height="1817" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Roza_Bal" title="Roza Bal">Roza Bal</a> shrine in <a href="/wiki/Srinagar" title="Srinagar">Srinagar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kashmir" title="Kashmir">Kashmir</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Roza_Bal" title="Roza Bal">Roza Bal</a> is a shrine located in the <a href="/wiki/Khanyar" title="Khanyar">Khanyar</a> quarter in <a href="/wiki/Downtown_Srinagar" class="mw-redirect" title="Downtown Srinagar">downtown</a> area of <a href="/wiki/Srinagar" title="Srinagar">Srinagar</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kashmir_Valley" title="Kashmir Valley">Kashmir</a>. The word <i>roza</i> means tomb, the word <i>bal</i> mean place.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Locals believe a sage is buried here, <a href="/wiki/Yuzasaf#Islamic_version" class="mw-redirect" title="Yuzasaf">Yuzasaf</a> (alternatively Yuz Asaf or Youza Asouph), alongside another Muslim holy man, Mir Sayyid Naseeruddin. </p><p>The shrine was relatively unknown until the founder of the <a href="/wiki/Ahmadiyya" title="Ahmadiyya">Ahmadiyya</a> movement, <a href="/wiki/Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad" title="Mirza Ghulam Ahmad">Mirza Ghulam Ahmad</a>, claimed in 1899 that it is actually the tomb of <a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Ahmadiyya_Islam" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesus in Ahmadiyya Islam">Jesus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This view is maintained by Ahmadis today, though it is rejected by the local <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> caretakers of the shrine, one of whom said "the theory that Jesus is buried anywhere on the face of the earth is blasphemous to Islam."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kirisuto_no_haka">Kirisuto no haka</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Jesus&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Kirisuto no haka"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tomb_of_Jesus_Christ_and_his_brother_in_Shingo_Village.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Tomb_of_Jesus_Christ_and_his_brother_in_Shingo_Village.jpg/220px-Tomb_of_Jesus_Christ_and_his_brother_in_Shingo_Village.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Tomb_of_Jesus_Christ_and_his_brother_in_Shingo_Village.jpg/330px-Tomb_of_Jesus_Christ_and_his_brother_in_Shingo_Village.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Tomb_of_Jesus_Christ_and_his_brother_in_Shingo_Village.jpg/440px-Tomb_of_Jesus_Christ_and_his_brother_in_Shingo_Village.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4804" data-file-height="3731" /></a><figcaption>Alleged tomb of Jesus in Shingo Village</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Shing%C5%8D,_Aomori#"Tomb_of_Jesus"" title="Shingō, Aomori">Shingō, Aomori § "Tomb of Jesus"</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Shing%C5%8D,_Aomori" title="Shingō, Aomori">Shingō</a> village in <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> contains another location of what is purported to be the last <a href="/wiki/Grave" title="Grave">resting place</a> of <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>, the so-called "Tomb of Jesus" (<i><a href="/wiki/Kirisuto_no_haka" class="mw-redirect" title="Kirisuto no haka">Kirisuto no haka</a></i>), and the residence of Jesus's last descendants, the family of Sajiro Sawaguchi.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the Sawaguchi family's claims, Jesus Christ did not die on the cross at <a href="/wiki/Calvary" title="Calvary">Golgotha</a>. Instead his brother, Isukiri,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> took his place on the cross, while Jesus fled across <a href="/wiki/Siberia" title="Siberia">Siberia</a> to <a href="/wiki/Mutsu_Province" title="Mutsu Province">Mutsu Province</a>, in northern Japan. Once in Japan, he changed his name to Torai Tora Daitenku, became a <a href="/wiki/Rice_production_in_Japan" title="Rice production in Japan">rice farmer</a>, married a twenty-year old Japanese woman named Miyuko, and raised three daughters near what is now Shingō. While in Japan, it is asserted that he traveled, learned, and eventually died at the age of 106. His body was <a href="/wiki/Excarnation" title="Excarnation">exposed</a> on a hilltop for four years. 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N. Mullik – My years with Nehru: Kashmir – Volume 2 1971 – Page 117 "Due to the presence of the Moe-e-Muqaddas on its bank the lake gradually acquired the name Hazratbal (Bal in Kashmiri means lake) and the mosque came to be known as the Hazratbal Mosque. Gradually the present Hazratbal village grew ..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Nigel B. Hankin <i>Hanklyn-janklin: a stranger's rumble-tumble guide to some words</i> 1997 Page 125 (Although bal means hair in Urdu, in this instance the word is Kashmiri for a place – Hazratbal – the revered place.) HAZRI n Urdu Lit. presence, attendance. In British days the word acquired the meaning to Europeans and those associated with ..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Andrew Wilson The Abode of Snow: Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to ... 1875 reprint 1993– Page 343 Bal means a place, and Ash is the satyr of Kashmir traditions."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Parvéz Dewân Parvéz Dewân's Jammû, Kashmîr, and Ladâkh: Kashmîr – 2004 Page 175 "Manas means 'mountain' and 'bal' means 'lake' (or even 'place'). Thus, the ..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/J._Gordon_Melton" title="J. Gordon Melton">J. 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