An olive grove at the foot of the Mount of Olives, across the Kidron valley from the temple, where Jesus prayed on the night of his arrest. The name is Aramaic gat shemanē — OIL PRESS: the stone basin and weighted beam that crushed the olives grown on the slope above it. Matthew and Mark call it a chōrion, a plot or parcel of ground, and neither translates the name; John does not use the name at all, saying only that there was a garden across the Kidron. ⚠ The traditional site, at the foot of the western slope beside the Church of All Nations, has been venerated since at least the fourth century, when Eusebius mentions Christians praying there — but the precise spot is tradition rather than evidence, and the several ancient olive trees shown to visitors, though genuinely old, have been dated to well after the first century. What the geography does establish is the short distance: from the upper city to the grove is a walk of minutes, downhill, through a gate.