Cenacle

Upper Room ( Cenacle Latin ) is the traditional name for the area in which Jesus Christ in Jerusalem is said to have celebrated on the eve of his death, the Last Supper with his disciples. According to the report of the three Synoptic Gospels, there was also a Passover meal, which is celebrated among the Jews to this day as the Seder. The so-called Christians commemorate the Last Supper, in which Jesus began the Eucharist and since then has been the subject of numerous paintings, on the evening of Holy Thursday. The entire building of the Upper Room in Jerusalem is located since 1948 in fact the property of the Jewish state, and is a museum.

In the Gospels

According to Mark 14.12-16 and EU Lk 22.7 to 13 EU, there was a large room upstairs, which the disciples found on the instructions of their master, by following in the city a water carrier into a house and the landlord on responded the needed space. In Matthew 26.17 to 19 EU lacks these details. Although Jn 13:1-17 EU mentioned in verse 2 the meal, but otherwise says nothing about the room, as it may not illustrate the deuteron Jesus' words over the bread and wine. However, the feast is connected with the symbolic washing of feet here.

The Christian tradition has this space identified with the space in which the disciples themselves up after the crucifixion of Jesus and the Risen where they met with the greeting of peace (Luke 24:36 ff EU; Jn 20:19 ff EU), as well as with that of the Upper in which the disciples with the women and Mary, according to Acts 1:12-14 EU waiting praying and received the Holy spirit.

First Church of Christians

So this room was of great importance as the nucleus of the church, and tried as you to locate the scenes of the Gospel in nachkonstantinischer time, was erected on the southwest hill of the old town, which has since been inaccurate mountain called Zion, a basilica, the location of the Last Supper should mark. This building was in the Crusader period replaced by a new building, St. Mary on Mount Sion (St. Mary on Mount Sion ), of which there were only receive parts in the destruction by Sultan Saladin. These were purchased in 1336 by the Franciscans, here the Gothic hall built a hundred years later, which is to this day shown and revered as the Last Supper and the basement of Christians as a place of washing of feet. The Jews worship there, the grave of David.