Gethsemane

Gethsemane is a garden as well as a courtyard at the foot of the 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.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem
  • Also known as: “Garden of Gethsemane”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of All Nations and Dome of the Rock.

Church
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The , also known as the Church of Gethsemane or the Basilica of the Agony, is a Catholic church located on the in , next to the Garden of Gethsemane.

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.

Peak
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The Old City of Jerusalem is that part of surrounded by the impressive 16th-century Ottoman city walls and representing the heart of the city both historically and spiritually.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Muslim Quarter and East Jerusalem.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four sectors of the ancient, walled . It covers 31 hectares of the northeastern sector of the Old City.

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is the part of Jerusalem that belongs to the Palestinian territories. The walled is formally part of it, but is discussed in its own article.

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The of Jerusalem is that part of surrounded by the impressive 16th-century Ottoman city walls and representing the heart of the city both historically and spiritually.

Gethsemane

Latitude
31.77935° or 31° 46′ 46″ north
Longitude
35.2402° or 35° 14′ 25″ east
Open location code
8G3QQ6HR+P3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5325157775
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Wiki­data ID
Q205333
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Yue Chinese—“Gethsemane” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Γεθσημανή”
  • Arabic: “بستان جثسيماني”
  • Arabic: “بستان جثيماني”
  • Arabic: “جثسيماني”
  • Arabic: “جثيماني”
  • Armenian: “Գեթսեմանի այգի”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qetit”
  • Basque: “Getsemani”
  • Belarusian: “Гефсіманія”
  • Bengali: “গেৎশিমানী”
  • Breton: “Jetsemani”
  • Bulgarian: “Гетсиманска градина”
  • Bulgarian: “Гетсиманска молитва”
  • Bulgarian: “Гетсиманската градина”
  • Catalan: “Getsemaní”
  • Chinese: “客西馬利園”
  • Chinese: “客西馬尼園”
  • Chinese: “客西马尼园”
  • Chinese: “革責瑪尼山園”
  • Croatian: “Getsemanski vrt”
  • Czech: “Getsemanská zahrada”
  • Czech: “Zahrada Getsemanská”
  • Danish: “Getsemane Have”
  • Danish: “Getsemane”
  • Dutch: “Gethsemane”
  • Dutch: “Getsemane”
  • Dutch: “Hof van Olijven”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بستان جثسيمانى”
  • Esperanto: “Getsemano”
  • Estonian: “Ketsemani”
  • Finnish: “Getsemane”
  • Finnish: “Getsemanen puutarha”
  • French: “Gethsemani”
  • French: “Gethsémani”
  • French: “Jardin de Gethsemane”
  • French: “Jardin de Gethsémani”
  • French: “Jardin des oliviers”
  • Galician: “Xetsemaní”
  • German: “Christus am Ölberg”
  • German: “Garten Gethsemane”
  • German: “Gethsemane”
  • German: “Gethsemani”
  • German: “Getsemane”
  • German: “Getsemaneh”
  • German: “Getsemani”
  • Greek: “Γεθσημανή”
  • Greek: “Γεθσημανί”
  • Greek: “Γεσθημανή”
  • Hebrew: “גת שמנים”
  • Hebrew: “מערת גת שמנים”
  • Hungarian: “Gecsemáné kert”
  • Hungarian: “Getszemáni-kert”
  • Indonesian: “Getsemani”
  • Indonesian: “Taman Getsemani”
  • Irish: “Geitséamainí”
  • Italian: “Getsemani”
  • Italian: “Orto degli ulivi”
  • Italian: “Orto dei Getsemani”
  • Japanese: “ゲッセマネ”
  • Japanese: “ゲツセマネ”
  • Japanese: “ゲッセマネの園”
  • Japanese: “ゲツセマネの園”
  • Javanese: “Getsemani”
  • Korean: “게세마니”
  • Korean: “게쎄마니”
  • Korean: “겟세마네”
  • Korean: “겟세마니”
  • Latvian: “Ģetzemane”
  • Macedonian: “Гетсиманска Градина”
  • Malagasy: “Getsemane”
  • Malay: “Taman Gethsemane”
  • Malayalam: “ഗെത്ത്സെമാനെ”
  • Maori: “Kāri o Kehemane”
  • Maori: “Kehemane”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Getsemane hage”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Getsemane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Getsemane”
  • Norwegian: “Getsemane”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܓܕܣܡܢ”
  • Persian: “باغ جتسیمانی”
  • Persian: “باغ گت شمن”
  • Persian: “جتسیمانی”
  • Persian: “گت شمن”
  • Persian: “گتسیمانی”
  • Polish: “Getsemani”
  • Polish: “Ogród Oliwny”
  • Polish: “Ogrójec”
  • Portuguese: “Getsemani”
  • Portuguese: “Getsémani”
  • Portuguese: “Getsêmani”
  • Portuguese: “Jardim de Getsêmani”
  • Romanian: “Ghetsimani”
  • Romanian: “Grădina Ghetsimani”
  • Russian: “Гефсиман”
  • Russian: “Гефсимания”
  • Russian: “Гефсиманский сад”
  • Scots: “Gethsemane”
  • Serbian: “Getsimanski vrt”
  • Serbian: “Hortvs Gethsemani”
  • Serbian: “Гетсиманска башта”
  • Serbian: “Гетсимански врт”
  • Slovak: “Getsemanská záhrada”
  • Slovenian: “Getsemani”
  • Spanish: “Getsemani”
  • Spanish: “Getsemaní”
  • Spanish: “Huerto de Getsemani”
  • Spanish: “Huerto de Getsemaní”
  • Spanish: “Huerto de los Olivos”
  • Spanish: “Jardin de Getsemani”
  • Spanish: “Jardin de Getsemaní”
  • Spanish: “Jardín de Getsemaní”
  • Swedish: “Getsemane”
  • Tagalog: “Getsemani”
  • Tamil: “கெத்சமனி”
  • Thai: “เกทเสมนี”
  • Turkish: “Gethsemane”
  • Turkish: “Getsemani”
  • Ukrainian: “Гетсиманія”
  • Ukrainian: “Гетсиманський сад”
  • Ukrainian: “Гефсиманія”
  • Urdu: “گتسمنی”
  • Vietnamese: “Vườn Cây Dầu”
  • Vietnamese: “Vườn Gethsemani”
  • Vietnamese: “Vườn Getsemani”
  • Vietnamese: “Vườn Giệtsimani”
  • Vietnamese: “Vườn Nhiệt”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Getsemani”
  • Welsh: “Gardd Gethsemane”
  • Welsh: “Gethsemane”
  • Western Panjabi: “گیتھسمنی”
  • Yue Chinese: “客西馬尼園”

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Notable Places Nearby

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