We start our one hour tour at the top of Mount Olives at what is the best observation point on the Old City of Jerusalem, and walking down the mountain we stop at sites commemorating the sanctity of the mountain to Judaism and Christianity.
From the East we see Jerusalem from perhaps the same point Jesus saw the city some 2,000 years ago when he arrived on what became Palm Sunday. But what we will see instead of the Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount, are two of the most sacred shrines to Islam – Al – Aqsa Mosque and Al Haram Al Sharif known as the golden Dome of the Rock . We will see the Golden Gate or Gate of Mercy through which Jesus perhaps entered the Temple.
We will walk down the mountain alongside the massive Jewish cemetery, the most important cemetery to Jews, that has been active for 3,000 years, just across the Kidron Valley from the Temple Mount.
On our way down the mountain we will stop at the Dominus Flevit (the Lord Wept) church commemorating the point where Jesus became overwhelmed by the beauty of the Temple and the diaspora of the Jewish people wept openly as he propheyed the distruction of Jerusalem, which happened about 40 years later.
We will also make a short stop at the collection of ossuaries (stone burial coffins) found around the church, to learn of the burial culture two thousand years ago.
We’ll continue our walk down the mountain to Gethsemane with its ancient olive trees (about a thousand years old) and the Church of Agony or Church of All Nations, at the Kidron Valley, where we will end out tour.
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