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===Syriac Chapel with Tomb of Joseph of Arimathea===
[[File:Tomb of Joseph of Arimathea.jpg|thumb|upright|Altar in the Syriac chapel]]

West of the Aedicule, to the rear of the Rotunda, is the [[:commons:Category:Chapel of the Syrians (Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem)|Syriac Chapel]] with the Tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, located in a Constantinian apse and containing an opening to an ancient Jewish rock-cut tomb. This chapel is where the [[Syriac Orthodox Church|Syriac Orthodox]] celebrate their Liturgy on Sundays.

The [[Syriac Orthodox Church|Syriac Orthodox]] Chapel of [[Saint Joseph of Arimathea]] and [[Saint Nicodemus]]. On Sundays and feast days it is furnished for the celebration of Mass. It is accessed from the Rotunda, by a door west of the Aedicule.

====First-century tomb====
On the far side of the chapel is the low entrance to an almost complete first-century Jewish tomb, initially holding six ''[[Rock-cut tomb#Kokh|kokh]]''-type funeral shafts radiating from a central chamber, two of which are still exposed. Although this space was discovered relatively recently and contains no identifying marks, some believe that Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus were buried here.<ref>{{cite web |last1=sepulchre |first1=church of the holy |title=Chapel of Joseph of Arimateaitled |url=https://www.churchofholysepulchre.com/post/2017/01/31/chapel-of-joseph-of-arimateaitled |website=Church of the Holy Sepulchre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220820070048/https://www.churchofholysepulchre.com/post/2017/01/31/chapel-of-joseph-of-arimateaitled |archive-date=20 August 2022 |language=en |date=15 December 2016}}</ref> Since Jews always buried their dead outside the city, the presence of this tomb seems to prove that the Holy Sepulchre site was outside the city walls at the time of the crucifixion.<ref name=natgeo/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Featherman |first1=Americus |title=Social History of the Races of Mankind ... |date=1881 |publisher=Trübner & Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4erc4KqiBtUC&dq=Syriac%20Chapel%20with%20Tomb%20of%20Joseph%20of%20Arimathea&pg=PA464 |language=en |access-date=19 March 2023 |archive-date=21 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421064232/https://books.google.com/books?id=4erc4KqiBtUC&dq=Syriac%20Chapel%20with%20Tomb%20of%20Joseph%20of%20Arimathea&pg=PA464 |url-status=live }}</ref>