The chapel is located directly beneath Golgotha, immediately below the Crucifixion. Part of the rock is hidden under glass from especially fanatical pilgrims, who often tried to chip off and bring back to their homeland at least a small piece of Golgotha. Look closely and you will see a crack leading upward, to the place where the Crucifixion is installed. It is believed that the forefather Adam was once buried here, on Mount Golgotha. When Jesus was crucified and his blood was spilled onto the ground, the rock split, and his blood sprinkled Adam's bones. In the philosophical sense, this event meant that with his blood Jesus redeemed the sin of the forefather and thereby washed away the original sin of all mankind. It is known that the chapel, like Golgotha as a whole, in the early centuries was hidden by Roman sanctuaries. Under Constantine the Great, it was discovered beneath a wall and incorporated into the complex of the Church. And under the first Crusaders in the 11th century, the chapel began to be used as the burial place of the first kings of Jerusalem - Godfrey of Bouillon and Baldwin I.
