By the fourth century, once Christianity had imperial patronage under Constantine, the mount had begun to fill with churches marking its gospel associations: the Eleona over the traditional site of Jesus's teaching, the first Church of the Ascension, and later Dominus Flevit and Gethsemane's Church of All Nations, most rebuilt more than once across the centuries of Byzantine, Crusader and modern construction. The Palm Sunday procession still traces a traditional route down the mount's western face into the Old City, reenacting the triumphal entry described in the gospels.
The Jewish cemetery on the mount's slope has its own modern history of contest. Under Jordanian control of East Jerusalem between 1948 and 1967, much of the cemetery was damaged, with gravestones reportedly used as paving and building material, and access for Jewish burial and visitation was cut off; since Israel took control of East Jerusalem in 1967 the cemetery has been restored and burials there have continued, though the area remains within contested and, under international law, disputed territory, and access and land questions around the mount surface periodically in wider Jerusalem disputes. Today the mount offers one of the classic views of the Old City and the Temple Mount's Dome of the Rock, and it remains simultaneously an active cemetery, a pilgrimage destination, and a residential Palestinian neighborhood, a layering of uses that is itself characteristic of Jerusalem's sacred geography.