Is the Mount of Olives and Gethsemane the same place?

The Garden of Gethsemane, the place where Jesus prayed and agonized about his passion, and where he was arrested after Judas betrayed him, sits outside of Jerusalem across a small valley. The Mount of Olives stretches as a ridgeline opposite the Temple; the garden was on this hillside (see it on a map here).



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The Garden of Gethsemane still exists! It is a grove of Jerusalem olive trees on the lower slopes of the Mount of Olives, across the Kidron Valley from the Old City walls in Jerusalem.

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The access is very easy from the Old City, it is free but can be packed with visiting groups and tour busses. From the Gardens, you can walk up alongside the hill to hace a wonderful view of the Jerusalem remparts. The place where Jesus prayed just before his arrest.

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