Mount of Olives
Proper noun
Meaning
Mount of Olives
A mountain ridge east of and adjacent to the Old City of Jerusalem, a holy place for both Judaism and Christianity.
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Before the conversion of Constantine in 312 AD, early Christians honored the Ascension of Christ in a cave on the Mount of Olives.
Approximately NIS 20m. of the tourism funding will be directed toward the Mount of Olives Cemetery.
Matthew's Gospel makes reference to Jesus and the disciples singing a hymn before they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Drive to the top of the Mount of Olives to the Seven Arches Hotel.
In fact, it was in the holy fifty days, Pentecost, in the month of May, on the seventh day, at the third hour of the day, a very exceedingly beautiful cross of light was seen hanging in the sky over Holy Golgotha, stretching to the Holy Mount of Olives.
Mount of Olives, view from the Kidron Valley, today.