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The Mount of Olives is the ridge east of Jerusalem's Old City that holds the Ascension, the place where Jesus wept over the city, and where he taught the Lord's Prayer.
The Mount of Olives rises east of the Old City, across the Kidron Valley, and offers the most famous view of Jerusalem in the world. Its slopes hold a cluster of holy places gathered close together, each marking a moment from the final week and the Ascension.
Near the summit stands the Chapel of the Ascension. Just below are Bethphage, where the entry into Jerusalem began, the Pater Noster Church, where the Lord's Prayer is inscribed in many languages, and Dominus Flevit, shaped like a teardrop where Jesus wept over the city.
This is where Jesus ascended to heaven, wept over Jerusalem, and taught his followers the Lord's Prayer.
It is the hill of the Ascension, where the disciples watched the Lord taken up and were promised his return. "This same Jesus will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." (Acts 1:11)
Beginning a day here, with the whole city spread out below, sets the entire pilgrimage in view, quite literally.
East of the Old City of Jerusalem, across the Kidron Valley, directly opposite the Temple Mount.
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