coenaculum
Sign in to saveCoenaculum, the term applied to the eating-room of a Roman house in which the supper (coena) or latest meal was taken. It was sometimes placed in an upper storey and reached by an external staircase.
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- dining room
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- Israel
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- Jerusalem
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- Coenaculum
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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- Cenacle of the Pallottines
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Coenaculum, the term applied to the eating-room of a Roman house in which the supper (coena) or latest meal was taken. It was sometimes placed in an upper storey and reached by an external staircase.
The Last Supper in the New Testament was taken in the coenaculum, the large upper room cited in St. Mark (xiv.15) and St. Luke (xxii.12).
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