Mount of Olives

The Mount of Olives is a hill in the east of Jerusalem.

The first impression is of immense a the Jewish cemetery, largest in the world: according to the Jewish tradition, Mashia' H (Messiah), which will bring the resurrection of deaths, will initially pass by the Mount of Olives before entering Jerusalem. They is thus the people buried in this place who will be the ressuscitées first.

In addition to the cemetery, the hill is covered many Christian monuments. With low, the Basilica of Gethsémani, where is, in front of the furnace bridge, a rock on which Jesus would have requested before his Passion.

With semi-slope, with the length of a path which carries out of Jerusalem to Béthanie (El Lazaryeh), one commemorates the Lamentation of Jesus on Jerusalem which refused to accommodate its message, the Dominus flevit , very original Latin vault in the shape of tear, and whose retable consists of a picture window giving on a panorama on the esplanade of the Temple and the Dôme of the Rock.

Around this vault, other churches, including an orthodoxe church with the bell-towers decorated with bulbs in the purest Russian style, built in extremis by Russia tsarist before the Revolution of 1917.

More in north, the Carmel of the Lord's Prayer where the Christian prayer of the Our Father is presented in mosaics along a cloister, in various languages.

mosques are also present, inter alia on the place where the Christians venerate the memory of the Ascension of Jesus.

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Praise of the new militia (Order of the Temple) by Holy Bernard, 1129, chapter VIII, the Mount of Olives.

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