"The New Calvary," outside the Damascus Gate, Jerusalem

Underwood & Underwood · (c) 1901

We are standing on the northern wall of the old city, looking off straight towards Samaria and Galilee. Nazareth is between seventy and eighty miles away beyond that distant horizon. The Mount of Olives is three-quarters of a mile away over east of the city (right). The traditional Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the holy ground for which the Crusades were fought, is a little more than a quarter of a mile away behind us with the present limits of the city. "Look on that rounded grassy knoll, with the caverns yawning under it. There are hits which point to this place as the Hill of Calvary, far more strongly than to the traditional 'Holy Sepulchre.' From Travelling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscopic, with special "keyed" maps locating the chosen standpoints, and identifying all the landmarks; published by Underwood & Underwood.