Gethsemane, Jerusalem

Gethsemane (lit. 'oil press') was a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus underwent the agony in the garden and was arrested the night before his crucifixion.

It is a place of great resonance in Christianity. There are several small olive groves in church property, all adjacent to each other and identified with biblical Gethsemane.

Entrance to Gethsemane. According to the New Testament it was a place that Jesus and his disciples customarily visited, which allowed Judas Iscariot to find him on the night Jesus was arrested.

Walking along the path around the garden. The Garden of Gethsemane became a focal site for early Christian pilgrims.

Garden of Gethsemane. Eight ancient olive trees growing in the Latin site of the garden may be 900 years old. In 1681 Croatian knights of the Holy Order of Jerusalem, Paul, Antun and James bought the Gethsemane Garden and donated it to the Franciscan community, which owns it to this day.

See also

• Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery
• Dominus Flevit Church
• Church of All Nations
• Tomb of the Virgin Mary

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Source

• Gethsemane - Wikipedia

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