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The bedrock where Jesus is believed to have prayed. The Church of All Nations (Hebrew: כנסיית כל העמים; Arabic: كنيسة كل الأمم), also known as the Church of Gethsemane [1] or the Basilica of the Agony (Latin: Basilica Agoniæ Domini), is a Catholic church located on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, next to the Garden of Gethsemane.
One of four adjacent olive groves near the foot of the Mount of Olives, traditionally considered to be Gethsemane. Gethsemane (/ ɡ ɛ θ ˈ s ɛ m ə n i / gheth-SEM-ə-nee) [a] is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion.
The Church of Mary Magdalene (Russian: Церковь Святой Марии Магдалины; Arabic: كنيسة القديسة مريم المجدلية; Hebrew: כנסיית מריה מגדלנה) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian church located on the Mount of Olives, directly across the Kidron Valley and near the Garden of Gethsemane in ...
The church is mentioned by the Bordeaux pilgrim in the Itinerarium Burdigalense circa 333, and the historian Eusebius of Caesarea recounts that Constantine constructed a church over a cave on the Mount of Olives that had been linked with the Ascension. [2] The church survived intact until it was destroyed by the Persian Sasanids in 614.
Gethsemane Church (German: Gethsemanekirche) is one of four church buildings of the Lutheran Northern Prenzlauer Berg Evangelical Congregation (German: Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Prenzlauer Berg-Nord), within the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia, an umbrella organisation which includes Lutheran, Reformed, and United Protestant Calvinist congregations.
At the foot of the mount, where it meets the Kidron Valley, there is the Garden of Gethsemane with the Church of All Nations. Within the Kidron Valley itself are the Tomb of the Virgin Mary , the Grotto of Gethsemane, and the nearby tomb of the medieval historian Mujir ed-Din , and further south are the tombs of Absalom (Hebrew name: Yad ...
Dom Edward Chaix-Bourbon was the next Abbot of Gethsemani, installed on May 9, 1890; his abbatial benediction took place in September. Dom Edward applied himself to caring for the all-boys school the abbey ran on the grounds, transforming it into Gethsemani College (or Gethsemane college [12]). The college received numerous applications, mainly ...
The hotel has 54 rooms, 11 of which offer a view of Jerusalem from the highest vantage point in the city. [2] In addition to the Church of the Ascension, which adjoins the hotel to the south, the Garden of Gethsemane is approximately a ten-minute walk away to the west, down the steep slope of the Dominus Flevit ("Jesus Wept").