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Beneath the Calvary and the two chapels there, on the main floor, there is The Chapel of Adam.

According to tradition, Jesus was crucified over the place where Adam's skull was buried.

The Rock of Calvary is seen cracked through a window on the altar wall, the crack traditionally being said to be caused by the earthquake that occurred when Jesus died on the cross, and being said by more critical scholars to be the result of quarrying against a natural flaw in the rock.