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Cenacle

Cenacle is the traditional Latin term for the Upper Room, or the site of The Last Supper. This word is a derivative of the Latin word “cena,” which means dinner.

It allegedly lies in the second floor of a building on Mount Zion, in Jerusalem, just outside the Dormition Church behind the Franciscan house on Sion, and south of the Zion Gate in the Old City walls. In the basement of the building is King David’s Tomb.

The Cenacle is divided by three pillars into three naves. The pillars and the arches, windows and other Gothic style architectural elements, a clear indication the room was built by the Crusaders in the early 13th century, on top of a much older structure. The older structure, according to the archaeological research, was the church-synagogue of the early Christian community of Jerusalem.

Gethsemane

Gethsemane (also spelled Gethsemani) was the garden where, according to the New Testament and Christian traditions, Jesus watched and prayed the night before he was crucified and suffered for the sins of the world (see Atonement). According to Luke 22:43???44, Jesus’ anguish in Gethsemane was so deep that “his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” Gethsemane was also where Christ was betrayed by the disciple Judas Iscariot.

Tomb Of Jesus

The tomb of Jesus can refer to a number of different locations:

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, accepted as built on the ground (including the Hill of Calvary or Golgotha) on which Jesus was crucified and buried by most scholars and Christians.
The Garden Tomb, discovered in the 19th century outside of Jerusalem, is considered the actual site of Jesus’ grave by some Christians
The Roza Bal shrine in Srinagar, Kashmir, venerated by locals as the grave of a sage, is believed by Ahmadi Muslims to be the burial site of one Yuz Asaf, whom they identify with Jesus.
Shingo, Aomori in Japan, another place according to local lore where Jesus alledgedly fled to after the crucifiction.

The life of Jesus

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Jesus Christ ruling figure of Christianity, born in Bethlehem, to a peasant family between eight BC and four AD. We know very little about Jesus’ life, the first record of his life was written some forty years after his death. For many: a Savior, a healer, a prophet, and a teacher, whose life and teachings formed the foundation of Christianity. Christians regard Jesus as the incarnate Son of God, and as having been divinely conceived by Mary the wife of Joseph - a carpenter from Nazareth. The main sources of information concerning Jesus??? life are the Gospels, written in the latter half of the first century. Today, scholars generally agree that Jesus was a historical figure verified both by Christian writers and by several Roman and Jewish historians.