The Cenacle, or Upper Room, stands on Mount Zion just outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City. It is traditionally linked to the Last Supper. The surviving Gothic room has six rib-vaulted bays and three freestanding columns. No architect is named, and scholars date it to before 1187 under the Crusaders, after 1229 under Frederick II, or the 1330s under the Franciscans.
The site is older. Emperor Theodosius I is credited with the Hagia Sion basilica, and a pilgrim around 333 reported a synagogue there. The Franciscans took custody in 1337. In 1524 the Ottomans converted the room into a mosque, the Masjid an-Nabi Dawud, and evicted the Franciscans in 1551.
A mihrab, a minaret and a dome remain. David's Tomb is on the ground floor, and Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass in the Cenacle in 2000.
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