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The Cenacle , also known as the Upper Room, is a room in the David's Tomb Compound in Jerusalem, traditionally held to be the site of the Last Supper. The word is a derivative of the Latin word cēnō, which means I dine. The Gospel of Mark employs the Koine Greek: αναγαιον, anagaion, , whereas the Acts of the Apostles uses Koine Greek: ύπερωιον, hyperōion , both with the meaning upper room. The language in Acts suggests that the apostles used the Upper Room as a temporary residence , although the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary disagrees, preferring to see the room as a place where they were not lodged, but had for their place of rendezvous.Jerome used the Latin coenaculum for both Greek words in his Latin Vulgate translation. In Christian tradition, the Upper Room was not only the site of the Last Supper , but the room in which the Holy Spirit alighted upon the eleven apostles after Easter. It is sometimes thought to be the place where the apostles stayed in Jerusalem and, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, it was the first Christian church.
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