Garden of 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.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Garden
  • Also known as: “حديقة الجثسيماني”
  • Address: Jerusalem

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Church of All Nations and Tomb of the Virgin Mary.

Church
Photo: Etc. gamma, Public domain.
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 .

Church
Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Church of the Sepulchre of Saint Mary, also or the Church of the Assumption, is a Christian church built around an ancient Judean rock-cut tomb in the – at the foot of , in – believed by Christians to be the burial place of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.
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. is situated 450 metres southwest of Garden of Gethsemane.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Muslim Quarter and East Jerusalem.

Neighborhood
Photo: McKaby, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is one of the four sectors of the ancient, walled . It covers 31 hectares of the northeastern sector of the Old City.

Photo: Papierdrache, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Garden of Gethsemane

Latitude
31.7796° or 31° 46′ 47″ north
Longitude
35.23967° or 35° 14′ 23″ east
Open location code
8G3QQ6HQ+RV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 56711604
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­orchard
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­garden
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In Other Languages

From Breton to Vietnamese—“Garden of Gethsemane” goes by many names.
  • Breton: “Liorzh Jetsemani”
  • Catalan: “Getsemaní”
  • Chinese: “客西马尼园”
  • Czech: “Getsemanská zahrada”
  • Danish: “Getsemane”
  • Dutch: “Getsemane”
  • Finnish: “Getsemane”
  • French: “Gethsémani - Jardin des Oliviers”
  • German: “Garten Getsemani”
  • Hebrew: “גת שמנים”
  • Hindi: “गतसमानी उद्यान”
  • Hungarian: “Gecsemáné kert”
  • Irish: “Geitséamainí”
  • Italian: “Getsemani”
  • Japanese: “ゲッセマネ”
  • Korean: “겟세마네”
  • Norwegian: “Getsemane”
  • Polish: “Getsemani”
  • Portuguese: “Getsêmani”
  • Romanian: “Grădina Ghetsimani”
  • Russian: “Гефсимания”
  • Serbian: “Гетсимански врт”
  • Spanish: “Getsemaní”
  • Swedish: “Getsemane”
  • Ukrainian: “Гетсиманський сад”
  • Vietnamese: “Vườn Getsemani”

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Notable Places Nearby

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