The Catholic Church tradition about the death of Mother Mary is called "The Dormition" [The Sleep]

She went into a deep sleep from which she never woke. The location of her death is not known, and has variously been given as Jerusalem, Ephesus (Turkey) and France. Little mention is ever made of the grave on the Old Silk Road. Yet the evidence is mounting that this was the birthplace of Abraham Sarah, that Tocharians and Pashtuns are an integral part of Biblical history, and Kashmir was the Camelot of many Biblical Patriarchs.

Joseph the Patriarch's grave  near Palestine was destroyed in the summer of 2000. The grave of Yuz Asaf is in imminent danger of being wiped out through "remodeling". Each week in some large way or small, the world loses another great piece of history. It doesn't always happen with a big bang o Sometimes the destruction consists  of a few  small stolen  relics  to sell on E-Bay every few months What if there was just one chance in a million? Or one chance in a billion  this could be her final resting place? Surely we owe it ourselves, and to her, to find out. How hard would that be? A few archaeolo get to the truth in a matter of days. The site has already been twice attacked and bombed.  The grave of Joseph, , is a few miles away. legends connected with the popular tourist resort side of the Queen’s mountain; the word Mary means ‘Queen’. In recent years the name evolved from Mary de Astan (Resting place of Mary) to Mary, and now the town is known as Murree. was  covered in candle wax, and prayer flags were everywhere among the alpine wild flowers, flowi mountain often glowed with  strange auras of  light at night. People traveled from far and wide to  bring their sick here for healing, or sit quietly beside the grave. The site has been maintained and honored as far back as anyone can remember. Its importance can be judged from the fact that the surrounding country is named after the supposed gravesite.

According to an old legend, the name 'Murree' is derived from 'Marium' or Mary. Among locals it is know as Mai Mari da Asthan ("

Resting Place

of Mother Mary"). Indeed, when the British first arrived here in 1850s to establish a new hill-station in India, Murree was still known as Mari. The spelling was later changed to the present one in 1875.

The exact origin of the shrine has become obscured by the waves of time. Since an ancient period, Hindus had worshipped it, and the Muslims paid their homage on Thursdays by lighting earthen lamps filled with oil.
views over forest-clad hills into deep valleys, studded with villages and cultivated fields, with the snow-covered peaks of Commanding, as one book puts it, "magnificent Kashmir in the background" and overlooking the plains of Punjab, it stood naturally eligible to be selected by the British for defensive purposes, and they built a watchtower at the site.
According to old records, "in 1898, Richardson, the Garrison Engineer, wished to demolish the tomb at the time of the construction of the defense tower. Shortly afterwards he died in an accident, and the locals connect the incident with his evil intentions towards the tomb.
The grave was thereafter promptly repaired.

A little further down the ridge, the British built a convent and named it the Convent of Jesus and Mary. Today, it is one of the best girls’ boarding schools in Pakistan
More recently, in 1968, two towering antennas were added adjacent to one another on 'Pindi Point,' the new name given to the location. One of them arises from the same place where Mary is believed to rest.
A crude-looking cement structure marks the spot nowadays where the alleged grave exists. The area is closed to the general public due to security concerns for the safety of the television boosters. Barbed wire surrounds the antennas to prevent anyone from getting near, and civil guards keep a vigil on the installations night and day.
Various superstitions surround the story of the tomb. Local residents have reported occasional sightings of unexplained lights in the vicinity of the grave at night. Others describe rare encounters with a ball of light condensing into a fuzzy apparition of a veiled female form. Most of the eyewitnesses questioned, believed that the images were genuine and connected to the woman buried on the hilltop who many also regard as a saint.

It has been learned that a low-key investigation by a team of archaeology experts from Islamabad was carried out a few years ago to validate the tomb claim. However, their findings were never made public.
Skeptics from the field argue that regardless of the outcome of the team’s findings, it cannot be accepted as the final verdict on the issue. One authority figure, who did not wish to be named, stated: "While serious research of this nature requires extensive excavation, the visit by those archaeologists in the past was merely a superficial survey."
Among Christians, there is a group that believes in a post-Resurrection life of Jesus Christ. They insist that Christ traveled to Kashmir with his mother and died there. They believe that Mother Mary was also laid to rest in the same region.