Mount of olives

Mount Sion

These photos will take us to Jerusalem, beginning with the Mount of Olives and the Upper Room, where Jesus had the Last Supper.

This is a Jewish cemetary that blankets the Western slope of the Mount of Olives. As I descended the Mt. of Olives, I had to climb through a small opening in a wall to get this shot. There are three cemeteries leading up to the Eastern Gate of the Temple Mount. As you descend the Mount of Olives, you have the Jewish Cemetery. This is what is seen here. Then, toward the bottom and the Kidron Valley, there is the Christian cemetery. Then, as you ascend toward the Eastern Gate, you have the…

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The Mount of Olives is a north-south ridge that sits on the eastern watershed of the hills around Jerusalem. To its east, the land slopes... | Instagram

Mount of Olives - Named after the olive groves that once covered it, the Mount of Olives is part of a mountain ridge that runs just east of Jerusalem. After rising steeply from the Kidron Valley to a height of 2,684 feet (818 meters), the Mount of Olives tapers off eastward; where it ends, the Judean desert begins. As you can see, ...

Sheep grazing at the Mount of Olives

The Mount of Olives (also Mount Olivet, Hebrew: הר הזיתים, Har HaZeitim; Arabic: جبل الزيتون, الطور‎, Jebel ez-Zeitun, Jebel et-Tur, "Mount of the Summit") is a mountain ridge to the east of Jerusalem. It is named from the olive trees with which its sides are clothed. At the foot of the mountain is the Gardens of Gethsemane where Jesus stayed in Jerusalem, according to tradition.

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - "Gethsemane" is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem most famous as the place where, according to the gospels, Jesus and his disciples are said to have prayed the night before he was arrested.