Gethsemane

The garden at the foot of the Mount if Olives, across the Kidron Valley from where the temple once stood. This is where Jesus prayed on the night after the last supper and before the crucifixion.
The 1st picture is taken from the temple side of the valley looking back to Gethsemane. Part of the Garden is now the church with the 4 columns to the right of center. The 2nd and 3rd pictures are of the olive trees in the garden. The oldest of these trees is about 800 years, but olives extend shoots from the roots. So it is possible that some of these trees could be descendants of trees that were here 2,000 years ago.
The 4th and 5th pictures are in the church in the garden, known variously as the Church of All Nations or the Basilica of the Agony. The 4th picture is in the nave, while the 5th picture looks closer at the chancel. Tradition says that the stone in front of the altar is the stone where Jesus prayed and suffered that night.
The last picture is the view from Gethsemane to the mount where the temple stood on Jesus' day.Read more