As the Upper Room where the Holy Spirit came as tongues of fire on the Apostles, it is the birth-place of the Church. But the site is the subject of political controversy since it also considered ...

Archaeologists are working to uncover whether the Upper Room in Jerusalem is the official site of Jesus's Last Supper. It is also believed to be where Jesus reappeared after he died.

The room is briefly described in the Book of Luke 22:11-13, when Jesus Christ requested a large, furnished upper room where he and his disciples could eat their Passover meal.

The Apostles do not go away with head knowledge but a mission, to “go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19; see ...

At the conclusion of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Pope Francis focused his homily at Mass on the significance of the Upper Room, held to be the site of the descent of the Holy Spirit upon ...

When they entered the city they went to the upper room where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the ...

Mass in the Upper Room. In 2000, Pope John Paul II visited the Holy Land and in one of the most anticipated moments of his pilgrimage, he celebrated a private Mass in the Upper Room.

In the Acts of the Apostles, Luke notes that after the ascension of Jesus, the Eleven return to Jerusalem and immediately go to the Upper Room, where we are told they were staying “together with ...

Archaeologists are working to uncover whether the Upper Room in Jerusalem is the official site of Jesus's Last Supper. It is also believed to be where Jesus reappeared after he died.