Jerusalem Sites Overview

 

Summary of all the Biblical Sites and Their Locations

 

1. Mount of Olives

 

2. Bethphage 

• Beginning of the Triumphal Entry.

 

3. Chapel of Ascension

• Place from which Christ ascended to heaven and will return to in power and great glory at the end of the Great Tribulation.

 

4. Pater Noster Church

• Place Christ taught the Lord’s Prayer.

 

5. Tombs of the Prophets

• Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.

 

6. Triumphal Entry Pathway

• The road Christ descended on Palm Sunday, the Sunday before His crucifixion on Friday.

 

7. Church of Dominus Flevit

• Place Christ wept over Jerusalem on the Triumphal Entry and prophesied her future destruction.

 

8. Church of Mary Magdalene

• Christ cast out seven demons from Mary, and she became a passionate follower of Christ.

 

9. Garden of Gethsemane – Church of All Nations

 

10. Tomb of Mary (mother of Jesus)

 

11. Kidron Valley (Valley of Jehoshaphat)

• Place Christ will gather the nations in judgment at the end of the Tribulation Period, and their blood will flow to the depth of a horse’s bridle down toward the Dead Sea and beyond.

 

12. Temple Mount

• It was enlarged by Herod the Great. It’s the size of 35 football fields (35 acres, 14 hectares).

• The original temple was located exactly where the Dome of the Rock is today.

• Place the prophets ministered.

• The glory of the Lord filled the temple here.

• Place Christ ministered.

• Place the apostles ministered.

• Place the early church met.

• The Antonia Fortress was located just north of the Temple Mount.

 

13. Dome of the Rock (not a mosque but a shrine)

 

14. Western Wall

• It was part of the original wall of the Temple Mount Herod built.

• It existed during the time of Christ.

• It is the closest place (for a large gathering) to the original temple where the Jews pray.

 

15. Pool of Bethesda - St. Anne Church

• A lame man was healed here after waiting 38 years.

 

16. Via Dolorosa (painful path)

• It’s the believed path Christ took on the way to the Cross.

• It has 14 stations.

 

17. Gordon’s Garden Tomb - Golgotha

 

18. Church of the Holy Sepulcher

 

19. Absalom’s Tomb

 

20. Southern Stairs

• Place Christ taught His disciples.

• Likely location of Pentecost.

 

21. City of David

 

22. David’s Palace

 

23. Gihon Spring

 

24. Wall repaired by Nehemiah

 

25. Pool of Siloam

 

26. Hinnom Valley

• Gehenna – Idea of hell and eternal burning.

 

27. House of Caiaphas

• Place Peter denied Christ.

• Place Christ was condemned before Ananias and Caiaphas the high priest.

 

28. Tomb of David

 

29. The Upper Room

 

30. Herod’s Palace ~ Later, it would become Pilate's Palace

 

31. Citadel of David

 

Gates of Jerusalem

 

1. Eastern Gate (Golden Gate, Shushan Gate)

• Gate Christ regularly entered on His way to the temple from the Mount of Olives.

• Peter and James healed a lame man after entering this gate.

• Closed by Ottoman Turkish Muslims in the 1541 AD.

 

2. Lions Gate (Stephen’s Gate)

 

3. Herod’s Gate

 

4. Damascus Gate

 

5. New Gate

 

6. Jaffa Gate

 

7. Zion Gate

 

8. Dung Gate