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{{short description|Any place where it is believed Jesus was entombed}}
[[File:14 - Jesus is laid in the tomb and covered in incense - Station 14 of the Calvary Nuestra Señora de la Asunción Church (Villamelendro de Valdavia).jpg|thumb|alt=Jesus is laid in the tomb and covered in incense. Station 14 of the Calvary of the [[Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Villamelendro de Valdavia|Church of Our Lady of the Assumption]] ([[Villamelendro de Valdavia]]).|Jesus is laid in the tomb and covered in incense. Station 14 of the Calvary of the [[Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Villamelendro de Valdavia|Church of Our Lady of the Assumption]] ([[Villamelendro de Valdavia]]).]]

According to the [[gospel]] accounts, [[Jesus]] was buried in a tomb which originally belonged to [[Joseph of Arimathea]], a wealthy man who, believing Jesus was the [[Messiah]], offered his own sepulcher for the [[burial of Jesus]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-little-known-legend-of-jesus-in-japan-165354242/|title=The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan|last=Lidz|first=Franz|website=Smithsonian|language=en|access-date=2019-10-19}}</ref> According to Christian tradition, the tomb of Jesus is located in the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]].

== Church of the Holy Sepulchre ==
[[File:Golgotha cross-section.svg|thumb|upright=1.3|A diagram of the modern church showing the traditional site of [[Calvary]] and the Tomb of Jesus]]
The [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]] is a church in the [[Christian Quarter]] of the [[Old City (Jerusalem)|Old City]] of [[Jerusalem]].<ref>{{cite web| title=Complete compendium of Church of the Holy Sepulchre| url=http://madainproject.com/church_of_the_holy_sepulchre| website=Madain Project| access-date=18 March 2018}}</ref> It contains, according to traditions dating back to the [[Christianity in the 4th century|fourth century]], the two holiest sites in Christianity: the site where Jesus was [[crucifixion of Jesus|crucified]],<ref name=mcmahon>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Holy Sepulchre|title=Holy Sepulchre|first=Arthur L.|last=McMahon|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07425a.htm}}</ref> at a place known as [[Calvary]] (or Golgotha), and Jesus's [[empty tomb]], where he is believed by Christians to have been [[Burial of Jesus|buried]] and [[Resurrection of Jesus|resurrected]].<ref name=sacred>{{cite web|url=http://www.sacred-destinations.com/israel/jerusalem-church-of-holy-sepulchre.htm |title=Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem |location=Jerusalem |publisher=Sacred-destinations.com |date=21 February 2010 |access-date=7 July 2012}}</ref> [[Dale Allison]] finds “a fair chance” that the church actually marks the location of the burial of Jesus.<ref>{{cite book |last=Allison |first=Dale |author-link=Dale Allison |title=The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History |publisher=T&T Clark |year=2021 |isbn=978-0567697561 |page=446 |quote= So Rainer Riesner, “Auferstehung, Archäologie und Religionsgeschichte,” TBei 25 (1994): 319–26; Joan E. Taylor, “Golgotha: A Reconsideration of the Evidence for the Sites of Jesus’ Crucifixion and Burial,” NTS 44 (1998): 180–203; Dan Bahat, “Holy Sepulchre Church—Jesus’ Tomb,” in Where Christianity was Born, ed. Hershel Shanks (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeological Society, 2006), 176–95; and Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, “The Argument for the Holy Sepulchre,” RB 117 (2010): 55–91. Gibson, Final Days, 152–3, suggests that the site could have been remembered because one part of Golgotha was a rocky outcrop that was never obscured.}}</ref> 

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.<ref>{{cite news |last= Romey|first= Kristin|date= October 31, 2016|title= Unsealing of Christ's Reputed Tomb Turns Up New Revelations|url= https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/jesus-christ-tomb-burial-church-holy-sepulchre |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210222074707/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/jesus-christ-tomb-burial-church-holy-sepulchre |url-status= dead |archive-date= February 22, 2021 |work= National Geographic|location= Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City|access-date= 2 February 2023}}</ref>

== In the Apocrypha ==
Within the [[New Testament Apocrypha|apocryphal]] text known as the [[Gospel of Peter]], the tomb of Jesus is called "Joseph's garden".<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Walter Richard Cassels|Walter Richard]]|title=The Gospel According to Peter: A Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vQtKAAAAMAAJ|publisher=[[Longman|Longmans, Green]]|date=1894|page=8|accessdate=2022-04-02}}</ref>

== Other locations ==

===The Garden Tomb===
[[File:The Garden Tomb 2008.jpg|thumb|right|The Garden Tomb in Jerusalem.]]
[[The Garden Tomb]] is a [[Rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel|rock-cut tomb in Jerusalem]], which was unearthed in 1867 and at the time was considered by some [[Protestants]] to be a possible location of the tomb of Jesus. The tomb has been dated by Israeli archaeologist [[Gabriel Barkay]] to the 8th–7th centuries BC.<ref>Gabriel Barkay, ''The Garden Tomb'', published in ''[[Biblical Archaeology Review]]'' March/April 1986</ref>

===Talpiot Tomb===
[[File: Sealed Talpiot Tomb.jpg |thumb|The sealed Talpiot Tomb]]
The [[Talpiot Tomb]] (or Talpiyot Tomb) is a [[rock-cut tomb]] discovered in 1980 in the [[East Talpiot]] neighborhood, five kilometers (three miles) south of the [[Old City (Jerusalem)|Old City]] in [[East Jerusalem]]. It contained ten [[ossuary|ossuaries]], six inscribed with [[Epigraphy|epigraph]]s, including one interpreted as "''Yeshua bar Yehosef''" ("Jeshua, son of Joseph"), although the inscription is partially illegible, and its translation and interpretation is widely disputed.<ref name="heiser">{{cite web |last=Heiser |first=Michael |title=Evidence Real and Imagined: Thinking Clearly About the "Jesus Family Tomb"|url=http://www.michaelsheiser.com/Jesus%20Tomb%20article%20Heiser.pdf |access-date=2007-06-08 |pages=9–13}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Cooperman|first=Alan|date=2007-02-28|title='Lost Tomb of Jesus' Claim Called a Stunt|language=en-US|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2007/02/28/lost-tomb-of-jesus-claim-called-a-stunt-span-classbankheadarchaeologists-decry-tv-film-span/5a478bd4-7724-4557-aa29-b83aae36dccc/|access-date=2021-05-14|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

===Roza Bal===
[[File:Roza Bal Tomb in Srinagar Kashmir.jpg|thumb|left|[[Roza Bal]] shrine in [[Srinagar]], [[Kashmir]]]]

The [[Roza Bal]] is a shrine located in the [[Khanyar]] quarter in [[Downtown Srinagar|downtown]] area of [[Srinagar]] in [[Kashmir Valley|Kashmir]]. The word ''roza'' means tomb, the word ''bal'' mean place.<ref>Ghulām Muhyi'd Dīn Sūfī Kashīr, being a history of Kashmir from the earliest times to our own 1974 – Volume 2 – Page 520 "Bal, in Kashmiri, means a place and is applied to a bank, or a landing place."</ref><ref>B. 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 ..."</ref><ref>Nigel B. Hankin ''Hanklyn-janklin: a stranger's rumble-tumble guide to some words'' 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 ..."</ref><ref>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."</ref><ref>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 ..."</ref> Locals believe a sage is buried here, [[Yuzasaf#Islamic version|Yuzasaf]] (alternatively Yuz Asaf or Youza Asouph), alongside another Muslim holy man, Mir Sayyid Naseeruddin.

The shrine was relatively unknown until the founder of the [[Ahmadiyya]] movement, [[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad]], claimed in 1899 that it is actually the tomb of [[Jesus in Ahmadiyya Islam|Jesus]].<ref>[[J. Gordon Melton]] ''The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena'' 2007 "Ahmad specifically repudiated Notovitch on Jesus's early travels to India, but claimed that Jesus did go there late in His life. The structure identified by Ahmad as Jesus's resting place is known locally as the Roza Bal (or Rauza Bal)."</ref> This view is maintained by Ahmadis today, though it is rejected by the local [[Sunni]] 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."<ref>[[Times of India]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130710063559/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-05-08/india/28322287_1_srinagar-shrine-jesus Tomb Raider: Jesus buried in Srinagar?] 8 May 2010 "One of the caretakers of the tomb, Mohammad Amin, alleged that they were forced to padlock the shrine ... He believed that the theory that Jesus is buried anywhere on the face of the earth is blasphemous to [[Islam]]."</ref>

===Kirisuto no haka===
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[[File:Tomb of Jesus Christ and his brother in Shingo Village.jpg|thumb|Alleged tomb of Jesus in Shingo Village]]
[[Shingō, Aomori|Shingō]] village in [[Japan]] contains another location of what is purported to be the last [[grave|resting place]] of [[Jesus]], the so-called "Tomb of Jesus" (''[[Kirisuto no haka]]''), and the residence of Jesus's last descendants, the family of Sajiro Sawaguchi.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/GraveSign.jpg|title = From Japanese text of the sign included in this article|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211004059/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/GraveSign.jpg|url-status=dead|archivedate=December 11, 2019}}</ref> According to the Sawaguchi family's claims, Jesus Christ did not die on the cross at [[Calvary|Golgotha]]. Instead his brother, Isukiri,<ref>{{cite web|url = http://metropolis.co.jp/tokyotravel/tokyojapantravel/3523/tokyojapantravelinc.htm|title = Japan Travel: Jesus in Japan|accessdate = 2006-12-13|publisher = Metropolis |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060825022848/http://metropolis.co.jp/tokyotravel/tokyojapantravel/3523/tokyojapantravelinc.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2006-08-25}}</ref> took his place on the cross, while Jesus fled across [[Siberia]] to [[Mutsu Province]], in northern Japan. Once in Japan, he changed his name to Torai Tora Daitenku, became a [[Rice production in Japan|rice farmer]], 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 [[excarnation|exposed]] on a hilltop for four years. According to the customs of the time, Jesus's bones were collected, bundled, and buried in the mound purported to be the grave of Jesus Christ.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5326614.stm|title = The Japanese Jesus Trail|access-date = 2006-12-13|date = September 9, 2006|publisher = BBC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/110_japson.shtml|title = Land of the Rising Son|accessdate = 2006-12-13|date = May 1998|publisher = [[Fortean Times]]|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070310200846/http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/110_japson.shtml|archivedate = 2007-03-10}}</ref>

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==External links==
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*[https://madainproject.com/tomb_of_jesus List of tomb sites with photographs]

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