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Cenaculul din Jerusalem (Latin: Coenaculum or Cenaculum, meaning "dining room," English: The Upper Room, or the Room (camera), or Hall of the Last Supper, French: Cenacle)
It is the "upper chamber" (anagaion -Luca 22.12, Marc 14.15, or hyperoon in Acts 1.13 -, both translated into Latin by St. Hieronim's coenaculum) from the "gazebo," on which he defiled himself on the day of the Holy Day of the Last Supper or the Last Supper of Jesus Christ.

The relatively small square room (15m x 12 m) is, according to tradition, linked to other events in the history of Christian faith: The Eucharist, the washing of the feet, the appearance of Jesus risen before the apostles, the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles and Mary, the Dormition of Mary.

Geographical location

According to the tradition of most Christian churches it was found on the floor of a house on top of Mount Zion, the hill in the south-west of the "old city" in Jerusalem.
This tradition is relatively late, from the 4th to the Venth centuries and apparently derives from the more thorough tradition that locates on Mount Zion the event of the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles (Cyril of Alexandria, before 348). This latter event is mentioned as taking place in a "upper room," most likely the same place where the Last Supper took place.

Today it is a two-story building, embedded in a larger ensemble, located south of the Sion Gate (Tzion, in Arabic Al Bab Nabi Da'ud), behind a building of the Franciscan Order (Ad coenaculum) and, near the Dormition Church (Dormition).

The building houses two main objectives of religious and historical importance: King David's legendary tomb on the ground floor, with an annex containing yet another fictional burial monument at the upper level, and Cenacle at the east, at the upper level, along with the Chapel of the Descent of the Holy Spirit.
On the ground floor, on the west side, there is also the room where foot washing is commemorated.
The building has a minaret and a small dome.
And in the time of Jesus, when he probably belonged to a friend and his follower (Acts 2: 44 -45), he also had two levels - the lower one for prayers, and the higher one being a lunch room.

The building is a Christian place of pilgrimage but for a long time there was no official place of prayer and worship.

According to other traditions, such as that of the Syrian or Syrian Orthodox Church, Cenaculum was another room under St. Mark's Monastery near the Armenian Quarter in the old part of Jerusalem and which would have been the place of Maria's house, mother of the Evangelist Mark (John Mark).

Events related to Christian tradition

The Last Supper, the Last Supper, or the Lord's Supper, was, according to the tradition of three of the Synoptic evangelies, Jesus' parting dinner with his disciples. This dinner corresponded to the Seder dinner that the Jews keep until today's holiday