garden of gethsemane jerusalem israel

The kidron valley which surrounds jerusalem to the east separates the mount of olives from the city and from the nearby mount zion located to the south from where jesus set off on foot after the last supper crossing the valley to reach gethsemane. The garden of gethsemane is an urban garden located next to the church of all nations in jerusalem.

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The garden includes eight olive trees all of which were planted in the 12th century ce.

Garden of gethsemane jerusalem. The name gethsemane hebrew gat shemanim oil press. The garden is associated by oral tradition with the final days of jesus christ. I visited the garden of gethsemane with a daily tour 8 hours walking from the mount of olives along all the holly places along via dolorosa time off for lunch in a nice armenian restaurant and the tour end at the church of the holy sepulchre.

The garden is located at the entrance of the property of the sanctuary of gethsemane. Eight ancient olive trees growing in the latin site of the garden may be 900 years old see olive trees. The name of the garden is hebrew for oil press and the garden is planted with olive trees some dating back hundreds of years.

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. The garden of gethsemane is planted at the foot of the mount of olives facing the kidron valley and jerusalems old city walls. Gethsemane garden across the kidron valley on the mount of olives hebrew har ha zetim a mile long ridge paralleling the eastern part of jerusalem where jesus is said to have prayed on the night of his arrest before his crucifixion.

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