Jerusalem East: The Mount of Olives, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Kidron Valley, and the Most Biblically Significant Single Jerusalem Landscape
The Jerusalem East route covers the Mount of Olives as the most panoramically positioned single Jerusalem viewpoint, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Kidron Valley, the Jewish cemetery, and the most biblically significant single Jerusalem landscape.
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Mount of Olives: The Most Panoramic Jerusalem Viewpoint
The Mount of Olives (the most panoramically complete single Jerusalem viewpoint with the most comprehensively photographed single Jerusalem Old City panorama including the Dome of the Rock, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre dome, and the most densely packed single ancient Jerusalem rooftop landscape), is the most biblically significant single hill in the Jerusalem surroundings with the most extensive single Jewish cemetery on the slope (the most continuously used single burial site for the most ancient period in the Jewish tradition) and the most prophetically important single Messianic site.
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Garden of Gethsemane: The Olive Grove Prayer Site
The Garden of Gethsemane (at the foot of the Mount of Olives, the most directly Jerusalem-documented single site of the most dramatically narrated single New Testament event of Jesus prayer before his arrest, containing the most ancient single continuously living olive trees in Jerusalem dating from the Roman period and belonging to the Franciscan Basilica of the Agony), is the most intimate single Christian pilgrimage site in the Jerusalem landscape and the most emotionally resonant single gospel-narrative location.
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Kidron Valley: The Valley of Jehoshaphat
The Kidron Valley (the most historically and eschatologically significant single Jerusalem topographic feature separating the Old City from the Mount of Olives, identified in the most significant single Jewish, Christian, and Islamic prophetic tradition as the Valley of Jehoshaphat where the most universally anticipated single Last Judgment will occur), contains the most ancient single monumental Jewish tombs including the most dramatically carved single 2nd century BCE Absalom Pillar and the Tomb of Zechariah.
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Palm Sunday Road: The Triumphal Entry Route
The Palm Sunday road (the most ceremonially significant single Christian pilgrimage route from Bethphage on the Mount of Olives to the Jerusalem Old City gate, retraced annually by the most internationally diverse single Jerusalem Palm Sunday procession), provides the most directly gospel-narrative single Jerusalem walking experience for the Christian visitor who wants to most physically inhabit the most frequently described single Jerusalem sacred geography.
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Dominus Flevit: The Teardrop Chapel
Dominus Flevit (the most architecturally poignant single Jerusalem chapel designed by Antonio Barluzzi in 1955 in the shape of a teardrop commemorating the most emotionally described single gospel account of Jesus weeping over Jerusalem), provides the most completely framed single interior window view of the Jerusalem Old City through the most perfectly positioned single arched window with the Dome of the Rock centered in the most compositionally ideal single Jerusalem photograph.
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Hebrew University: The Mount Scopus Campus
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Mount Scopus (the most academically prestigious single Israeli research university, founded 1918 before the State of Israel, with the most panoramically positioned single campus in any world-class university with the most complete single Dead Sea and Jordan valley view from the most dramatically elevated single Jerusalem hill), is the most intellectually significant single Jerusalem modern institution and the most historically consequential single university founding in the Zionist educational tradition.