Handmade Olive Wood Cross with Heart Cutout from Bethlehem Holy Land, Small Christian Pocket Cross, Religious Gift with Velvet Bag and Certificate 2.5 Inches

This ankh and christian cross is handcrafted by skilled Christian artisans in Bethlehem. Made from genuine olive wood, each piece is unique with natural grain patterns. Size: 6.5 cm. Ships worldwide with free US shipping on orders over $100.

About This Cross

There's something about the heart cutout that gets people. You pick it up, run your thumb across the center, and it just makes sense. Faith and love in one small carved piece, pocket-sized, about 6.5 cm from top to bottom, light enough that you forget it's there until you need it.

This is a genuine olive wood cross from the Holy Land, hand-carved by Christian artisan families who've been doing this work their whole lives. It's not decorative in the way that word usually gets used. People carry these. Pastors hand them out at baptism. Parents tuck them into a kid's first Bible. If you're looking for a cross gift that actually means something, this is it.

We've the 10-pack option for a reason. Churches order them for confirmation classes, for communion prep, for Easter. One customer wrote us to say she bought the 10-pack for her Sunday school group and half the kids still had theirs two years later. That kind of thing sticks with me.

Features & Details

• ✓ Genuine olive wood, hand-carved by Christian artisans in Bethlehem
• ✓ Heart-shaped cutout at center, smooth hand-polished finish
• ✓ Size: 6.5 x 3.5 x 1.1 cm, pocket-sized, 15 grams
• ✓ Every piece has its own grain pattern, no two are the same
• ✓ Comes with a soft velvet pouch and a certificate of origin
• ✓ Available as single, 3-pack, or 10-pack for church gifts or bulk baptism favors
• ✓ Suitable as a christian cross, orthodox cross, or coptic christian cross for personal use or gifting

Product Specifications

Perfect As a Gift

A priest in Ohio ordered the 10-pack for first communion. He emailed after to say the parents asked where to get more. That's usually how it goes with these. Small thing, real impression.

The velvet pouch and certificate of origin make it ready to give right out of the box. No extra wrapping needed. For a crosses baptism gift, a crosses confirmation gift, or a crosses easter gift, this is the kind of thing people keep, not set on a shelf and forget. Free US shipping on orders over $100, and we ship worldwide.

The Story Behind It

Most crosses you find online are factory-pressed or machine-cut somewhere and labeled "handmade" loosely. These are carved by actual families in Bethlehem who've been doing this across generations. I know the workshops. I've been in them.

The olive wood comes from annual pruning of living trees. Nobody cuts a tree down for this. The artisans take the pruned branches and work with what the tree gave up naturally. That matters to me, and it's part of why we call it olive wood from the Holy Land and actually mean it.

The religious cross you get here is a direct result of that process. Hand-shaped, hand-polished, with a grain that formed over decades in the ground near Bethlehem. No shortcuts. The stations of the cross, orthodox church cross traditions, coptic and orthodox catholic cross forms, all of those run through the same region these families have carved in their whole lives. That context is real, not marketing.

Care Instructions

Olive wood is low maintenance. If it starts looking dry, rub a small drop of olive oil into it with a cloth and that's enough to bring it back. Don't soak it in water. That's really about it.