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  2. Mount of Olives - Wikipedia

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    The Mount of Olives or Mount Olivet (Hebrew: הַר הַזֵּיתִים, romanized: Har ha-Zeitim; Arabic: جبل الزيتون, romanized: Jabal az-Zaytūn; both lit. 'Mount of Olives'; in Arabic also الطور , Aṭ-Ṭūr , 'the Mountain') is a mountain ridge in East Jerusalem , east of and adjacent to Jerusalem's Old City . [ 1 ]

  3. Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Jewish tombs in the Mount of Olives. In 1992, with the burial of Prime Minister Menachem Begin on the Mount of Olives, it was decided to establish a dedicated security company for the cemetery, and to increase the protection of visitors to the site. In 2005, acts of harassment against Jews intensified, and a guard unit was created for personal ...

  4. Chapel of the Ascension, Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    During this time, Saladin established the Mount of Olives as a waqf entrusted to two sheikhs, al-Salih Wali al-Din and Abu Hasan al-Hakari. This waqf was registered in a document dated 20 October 1188. [8] The chapel was converted to a mosque, and a mihrab installed in it. Because the vast majority of pilgrims to the site were Christian, as a ...

  5. Church of the Pater Noster - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. At-Tur, East Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    'The Mount'; [1] Hebrew: א-טור) is a neighborhood on the Mount of Olives approximately 1 km east of the Old City of Jerusalem. At-Tur is situated in East Jerusalem, [2] occupied and later effectively annexed by Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967.

  7. Bethphage - Wikipedia

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    Bethphage (Ancient Greek: Βηθφαγή, romanized: Bēthpagḗ; Imperial Aramaic: בֵּית פַּגִּי, romanized: Bêt̲ Paggî, lit. 'house of unripe figs') [1] or Bethsphage, [2] is a Christian religious site on the Mount of Olives east of historical Jerusalem.

  8. List of biblical place names in North America - Wikipedia

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    The Mount of Olives or Mount Olivet (Hebrew: הַר הַזֵּיתִים Har HaZeitim) is a mountain east of Jerusalem, most notable as the site of the Olivet Discourse and the Ascension of Jesus. Mount Olive, Arkansas (disambiguation) Mount Olive, New Jersey; Mount Olivet Cemetery, many throughout the US

  9. Augusta Victoria Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Augusta Victoria Compound is Community hospital and Church complex on the northern side [1] of Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem and one of six hospitals of the East Jerusalem Hospitals Network.