In the Place of a Garden **Under Construction**

The place of a garden

There really are not many "gardens" near the Old City of Jerusalem. There is the Garden of Gethsemane but it is on the east side respective to the temple. The Holy Sepulcher has no trace of a garden whatsoever, it is just an old stone building. The thirty six acre spot the temple mount occupies has 'landscaping' but no gardens that I'm aware of. But if we look northward, just outside the Damascus Gate, we find a beautiful garden nestled up against the escarpment (cliff formed when stones were quarried from Mt Moriah). There are visible evidences of a working vineyard here: cisterns for storing water and winepresses. Also there must be a tomb hewn out of stone in this garden. There is!! See The Tomb. This place certainly qualifies as a garden with a tomb 'nigh unto the city', without the gate northward!