View of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

The view from the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem is simply stunning! This is the perfect place to take panorama photos! Here are some of the photos I took.

The Temple Mount or Dome of the Rock



Church of Mary Magdalene
Russian Orthodox church located on the Mt. of Olives
near the Garden of Gethsemane

Dominus Flevit - "Jesus Wept" Church 

According to tradition, this is the site where Jesus

was looking over the city, visualizing its destruction,

and weeping over its fate. The location of the church

fits the description in Luke 19 - on a descent from the 

Mount of Olives and facing the temple mount.

Necropolis on Mount of Olives

From Biblical times until the present, Jews have

been buried on the Mount of Olives. The necropolis 

(rock-cut tombs) on the southern ridge, the location

of the modern village of Silwan, was the burial place

of Jerusalem's most important citizens in the period of

the Biblical kings. There are an estimated 150,000 graves

on the Mount, including tombs traditionally associated

with Zechariah and Absalom. On the upper slope, the

traditional tombs of the Prophets Haggai, Zechariah

and Malachi are situated.

 

Ossuaries near Dominus Flevit 

An ossuary is a chest, building, well, or site made to

serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains.

They are frequently used where burial space is scarce.

A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after

some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed

in an ossuary. The greatly reduced space taken up by an

ossuary means that it is possible to store the remains of

many more people in a single tomb than if the

original coffins were left as is.



The Golden Gate, as it is called in Christian literature,

is the oldest of the current gates in

Jerusalem's Old City Walls.

 

Necropolis on Mount of Olives

 

The Tomb of Absalom, also called Absalom's Pillar, is an
ancient monumental rock-cut tomb with a conical
roof located in the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem.
Absalom was the rebellious son of King David.

El-Aqsa Mosque

The Cenacle / the Upper Room