The garden of Gethsemane, near the foot of the Mount of Olives, is the place where Jesus went with his disciples to pray the night before he was crucified.
The original inhabitants of Jerusalem did not live on the site of today’s Old City, but on a narrow ridge descending from the present Temple Mount, the area King David established his capital and pitched a tent to house the Ark of the Covenant.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem covers what Christians believe is the site of the most important event in human history: The place where Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
