Mary's Dormition- claims for two cities

Church of the Sepulchre of Saint Mary, also Tomb of the Virgin Mary, is a Christian tomb in the Kidron Valley – at the foot of Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem – believed by Eastern Christians to be the burial place of Mary, the mother of Jesus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_the_Virgin_Mary

Claims made for two cities http://www.seetheholyland.net/church-of-the-dormition/
Two cities, Jerusalem and Ephesus (in present-day Turkey), claim to be the place where the Virgin Mary died. The Ephesus claim rests in part on the Gospel account that Christ on his cross entrusted the care of Mary to St John (who later went to Ephesus).

But the earliest traditions all locate the end of Mary’s life in Jerusalem, where the Tomb of Mary is venerated at the foot of the Mount of Olives.

 Early writers favour Jerusalem.

“The apocryphal works of the second to the fourth century are all favourable to the Jerusalem tradition. According to the Acts of St John by Prochurus, written (160-70) by Lencius, the Evangelist went to Ephesus accompanied by Prochurus alone and at a very advanced age, i.e. after Mary’s death.
Life-size statue of Mary in death


Lifesize image of Mary in death, in the Church of the Dormition
If the upper floor of the Church of the Dormition is luminous, the circular crypt seems totally shrouded when first entered.
In the centre, under a rotunda, is a simple bier on which rests a life-size statue of Mary, fallen asleep in death. The statue is made of cherry wood and ivory.

Icon of Mary’s death at the Tomb of Mary (Seetheholyland.net)
http://www.seetheholyland.net/tag/ephesus/

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