The Tomb of Lazarus is in the West Bank town of al-Eizariya, traditionally identified as the biblical village of Bethany, on the southeast slope of the Mount of Olives, some 2.4 km (1.5 miles) east of Jerusalem. The tomb is the purported site of a miracle recorded in the Gospel of John in which Jesus resurrects Lazarus.
Jesus said ."Iam the Resurection and the Life"
Mosaics from the older churches
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The entrance to the tomb today is via a flight of uneven rock-cut steps from the street. As it was described in 1896, there were twenty-four steps from the then-modern street level, leading to a square chamber serving as a place of prayer, from which more steps led to a lower chamber believed to be the tomb of Lazarus
Three more steps lead to the burial chamber, little more than 2 metres long. Tradition says Jesus stood in the vestibule to call Lazarus from the grave.
Both the historian Eusebius of Caesarea[7] (c. 330) and the Bordeaux pilgrim in the Itinerarium Burdigalense[8] (c. 333) do mention the tomb of Lazarus. The first mention of a church dedicated to Saint Lazarus, called the Lazarium, is by Jerome in 390. This is confirmed by the pilgrim Egeria in her Itinerary, where she recounts a liturgy celebrated there in about the year 410. Therefore, the church is thought to have been built between 333 and 390.[9] Egeria noted, when the liturgy for Lazarus on the Saturday in the seventh week of Lent was performed, "so many people have collected that they fill not only the Lazarium itself, but all the fields around.
The Tomb
Dome of Church of St Lazarus
Mary and Martha with Christ, in Church of St Lazarus
Altar in the Church
Jesus raising Lazarus
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