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Mount of Olives

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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 818 metres
  • Description: mountain in Jerusalem that is mentioned several times in the Bible
  • Also known as: “Jabal aţ Ţūr”, “Jabal az Zaytūn”, “Mount Olivet”, and “Olivet”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chapel of the Ascension and Church of the Pater Noster.

Church
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The is a chapel and shrine located on the Mount of Olives, in the At-Tur district of Jerusalem. Part of a larger complex, historically it started as part of a Christian church and monastery, which later became an Islamic …

Church
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The is a Catholic church located on the Mount of Olives in . It is part of a Carmelite monastery of cloistered nuns, also known as the Sanctuary of the Eleona.

Place of worship
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The is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the in the . It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, the earliest archaeologically-attested religious structure to be built by a Muslim ruler and contains the earliest inscriptions proclaiming Islam and the prophet Muhammad.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gethsemane and At-Tur.

Locality
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is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in , where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood on the Mount of Olives approximately 1 km east of the Old City of . is situated in , occupied and later effectively annexed by Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967.

Neighborhood
Ma'ale HaZeitim is a Jewish Israeli settlement in , located on the Mount of Olives, near the Palestinian neighborhood of . In 2010, its inhabitants numbered some 250 people belonging to 50 families.

Mount of Olives

Latitude
31.77891° or 31° 46′ 44″ north
Longitude
35.24504° or 35° 14′ 42″ east
Elevation
818 metres (2,684 feet)
Open location code
8G3QQ6HW+H2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2031059194
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
281573
Wiki­data ID
Q205976
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Mount of Olives” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل الزيتون”
  • Armenian: “Ձիթենյաց լեռ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zeytun dağı”
  • Basque: “Olibetako mendia”
  • Basque: “Olibondoen mendia”
  • Belarusian: “Алейная гара”
  • Belarusian: “Аліўкавая гара”
  • Belarusian: “Аліўная гара”
  • Belarusian: “Элеонская гара”
  • Bengali: “জয়তুন পর্বত”
  • Bulgarian: “Елеонски хълм”
  • Bulgarian: “Оливий”
  • Bulgarian: “Хълм на маслините”
  • Catalan: “Mont de les Oliveres”
  • Cebuano: “Mount of Olives”
  • Chinese: “橄榄山”
  • Chinese: “橄欖山”
  • Croatian: “Maslinska gora”
  • Czech: “Olivetská hora”
  • Czech: “Olivová hora”
  • Danish: “Oliebjerget”
  • Dutch: “Mount of Olives”
  • Dutch: “Olijfberg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل الزيتون”
  • Esperanto: “Olivarba monto”
  • Finnish: “Öljymäki”
  • French: “mont des Oliviers”
  • French: “Mont des Oliviers”
  • French: “Mont-des-Oliviers”
  • Galician: “Monte das Oliveiras”
  • German: “Ölberg”
  • Greek: “Όρος των Ελαιών”
  • Hebrew: “הר הזיתים”
  • Hindi: “जैतून का पहाड़”
  • Hungarian: “Olajfák hegye”
  • Inari Sami: “Oljovääri”
  • Indonesian: “Bukit Zaitun”
  • Irish: “Cnoc na nOlóg”
  • Italian: “Monte degli olivi”
  • Italian: “Monte degli ulivi”
  • Italian: “Monte degli Ulivi”
  • Japanese: “オリーヴ山”
  • Japanese: “オリーブ山”
  • Japanese: “橄欖山”
  • Kannada: “ಆಲಿವ್ಸ್ ಬೆಟ್ಟಸಾಲು”
  • Khmer: “ភ្នំដើមអូលីវ”
  • Korean: “올리브산”
  • Ladin: “Mount of Olives”
  • Ladino: “Ar Azeitim”
  • Macedonian: “Маслинова гора”
  • Macedonian: “Маслинова Гора”
  • Malagasy: “Tendrombohitra Oliva”
  • Malagasy: “Tendrombohitra Ôliva”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oljeberget”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oljeberget”
  • Norwegian: “Oljeberget”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mont deis Oliviers”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mont dels Olius”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mont dels Olivièrs”
  • Persian: “کوه زیتون”
  • Polish: “Góra Oliwna”
  • Portuguese: “Monte das Oliveiras”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Măslinilor”
  • Russian: “Елеон”
  • Russian: “Елеонская гора”
  • Russian: “Масличная гора”
  • Russian: “Элеонская гора”
  • Scots: “Moont o Olives”
  • Serbian: “Maslinova gora”
  • Serbian: “Маслинова гора”
  • Serbian: “Маслинска Гора”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maslinova gora”
  • Slovak: “Olivová hora”
  • Slovak: “Olivový vrch”
  • Slovenian: “Oljska gora”
  • Spanish: “Monte de los Olivos”
  • Swahili: “Mlima wa Mizeituni”
  • Swedish: “Olivberget”
  • Swedish: “Oljeberget”
  • Tagalog: “Bundok ng mga Olibo”
  • Tamil: “ஒலிவ மலை”
  • Thai: “ภูเขามะกอกเทศ”
  • Turkish: “Zeytin Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Zeytindağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Єлеонська гора”
  • Ukrainian: “Оливкова гора”
  • Ukrainian: “Оливна гора”
  • Urdu: “جبل زیتون”
  • Venetian: “Monte degli Ulivi”
  • Vietnamese: “núi Cây dầu”
  • Vietnamese: “núi Cây Dầu”
  • Vietnamese: “núi Ô-li-vê”
  • Vietnamese: “núi Ô-liu”
  • Vietnamese: “núi Ôliu”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Ôliu”
  • Vietnamese: “núi Ôlivê”
  • Vietnamese: “núi Olives”
  • Vietnamese: “núi Olivet”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid han mga Olibo”
  • Welsh: “Mount of Olives”
  • Western Armenian: “Ձիթենեաց լեռ”
  • Western Frisian: “Oliveberch”
  • Western Panjabi: “زیتون دا پعاڑ”
  • Western Panjabi: “زیتون دا پہاڑ”
  • Wu Chinese: “橄榄山”
  • Yiddish: “הר הזיתים”
  • Yiddish: “הר הזתים”
  • Yue Chinese: “橄欖山”

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