A piece of devotional material, such as The Upper Room, may be left in each home.

** the Upper Room ( 1: 13 )

* Laurence Olivier Award for In the Upper Room, Laurence Olivier Foundation

The same building on Mount Zion is traditionally revered by Jews as David's Tomb and by Christians as the Cenacle ( The Upper Room ), and that there is a Jewish tradition that David was born and died on Pentecost.

The biblical narrative of Pentecost, where the 12 Disciples of Christ ( Acts 1: 13, 26 ) along with about 108 other individuals ( Acts 1: 15 ), including many women, among whom was Mary the mother of Jesus ( Acts 1: 14 ) received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room, is given in the second chapter of the Book of Acts.

Traditional interpretation holds that the Descent of the Holy Spirit took place in the Upper Room, or Cenacle, while celebrating the day of Pentecost ( Shavuot ).

This Upper Room was to be the location of the Last Supper and the institution of Holy Communion.

The next mention of an Upper Room is in Acts 1: 13-14, the continuation of the Luke narrative, authored by the same biblical writer.

", " they " refers to the aforementioned disciples and women ,; the " place " referring to the same Upper Room where these persons had " continued with one accord in prayer and supplication ".

Tharp choreographed Push Comes To Shove for ABT and Baryshnikov in 1976 ; in 1986 she created In The Upper Room for her own company.

Towards the end of 1830, Gautier began to frequent meetings of Le Petit Cénacle Little Upper Room, a group of artists who met in the studio of Jehan Du Seigneur.

In August 2005 the Stuckists initiated a major controversy over the Tate's purchase of its trustee Chris Ofili's work The Upper Room for £ 705, 000.

Outside the Turner Prize, Tate Britain, 2005: Stuckists demonstrate against the purchase of Chris Ofili's The Upper Room ( paintings ) | The Upper Room.

In 2005, Fraser Kee Scott, owner of A Gallery, demonstrated with the Stuckists art group outside the Tate Gallery against the gallery's purchase of The Upper Room, a work by Chris Ofili, then a serving Tate trustee.

* In 2005, there was a scandal over the Tate's purchase of its trustee Chris Ofili's work The Upper Room for £ 705, 000, and accusations of conflict of interest In July 2006, the Charity Commission completed an investigation into this and censured the gallery for acting outside its legal powers

As such the sunflower at the centre would double as a Masonic Blazing Star, echoing the Garter Blazing stars at the centre of the Red Velvet Room ceiling and in the centre of the floor in the Upper Tribunal.

1: Marble Hall ; 2: Great Staircase ; 3: Bedchamber, now Blue Room ; 4: Sweatmeat closet ; 5: Back stairs & east entrance ; 6: Chapel Drawing Room ; 7: Chapel ( double height ); 8: Tyrconnel Room ; 9: Saloon ; 10: Red Drawing Room ; 11: Little Parlour ( now Tapestry Room ); 12: School Room ; 13: Closet ; 14: Back stairs & west entrance ; 15: Service Room ( now Breakfast Room ); 16: Upper storey of kitchen, ( now Hondecoeter Room ); Please note: This is an unscaled plan for illustrative purposes only.

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

The first community established by him was at Tabennae, an island of the Nile in Upper Egypt.

As Sargon extended his conquest from the " Lower Sea " ( Persian Gulf ), to the " Upper Sea " ( Mediterranean ), it was felt that he ruled " the totality of the lands under heaven ", or " from sunrise to sunset ", as contemporary texts put it.

The population of Akkad, like nearly all pre-modern states, was entirely dependent upon the agricultural systems of the region, which seem to have had two principal centres: the irrigated farmlands of southern Iraq that traditionally had a yield of 30 grains returned for each grain sown and the rain-fed agriculture of northern Iraq, known as " the Upper Country ".

Assyria or Athura ( Aramaic for Assyria ) was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia ( present day northern Iraq ), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

Arnulf was, according to most sources, the illegitimate son of Carloman, King of Bavaria, and his concubine Liutswind, perhaps of Carantanian origin, and possibly the sister of Ernst, Count of the Bavarian Nordgau Margraviate in the area of the Upper Palatinate, or perhaps the burgrave of Passau, as some sources say.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

The weir across the Yamuna was the first attempted in Upper India upon a foundation of fine sand ; it is about 800-yard long, and rises seven-feet above the summer level of the river.

The Air Force was founded in 1964 as the Escadrille de la République de Haute-Volta ( EHV ) or the Republic of Upper Volta Air Squadron, a subordinate unit of the Army.

Meanwhile, on the Upper Rhine, Villars had been forced onto the defensive as battalion after battalion had been sent north to bolster collapsing French forces in Flanders ; there was now no possibility of his undertaking the re-capture of Landau.

His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.

In ancient Egypt, the bee was seen to symbolize the lands of Lower Egypt, with the Pharaoh being referred to as " He of Sedge and Bee " ( the sedge representing Upper Egypt ).

Gate House, with the rest of Upper Burwash, opened in 1913 and has held students every year since then except 1995, when it was renovated.

The old Bishopric of Bamberg was composed of an unbroken territory extending from Schlüsselfeld in a northeasterly direction to the Franconian Forest, and possessed in addition estates in the Duchies of Carinthia and Salzburg, in the Nordgau ( the present Upper Palatinate ), in Thuringia, and on the Danube.

Bamberg was chosen for its location in Upper Franconia, reasonably close to the residences of the members of the dissident northern Nazi faction but still within Bavaria.

In 1495, Basel was incorporated in the Upper Rhenish Imperial Circle ; the Bishop of Basel was added to the Bench of the Ecclesiastical Princes.

When Quebec was divided into the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791, the first Act passed by the Legislature of Upper Canada was to adopt the law of England for all purposes, replacing the civil law.

The Rideau Canal was built as a result of the War of 1812 to provide military transportation between the British colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada as an alternative to part of the St. Lawrence River, which was susceptible to blockade by the United States.

Some anthropologists, such as Tim White, suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies prior to the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period.

In 1966 a military coup deposed the first president of Upper Volta, Maurice Yaméogo, suspended the constitution, dissolved the National Assembly, and placed Lieutenant Colonel Sangoulé Lamizana at the head of a government of senior army officers.

Christianity spread throughout Egypt within half a century of Saint Mark's arrival in Alexandria, as is clear from the New Testament writings found in Bahnasa, in Middle Egypt, which date around the year AD 200, and a fragment of the Gospel of John, written in Coptic, which was found in Upper Egypt and can be dated to the first half of the 2nd century.

Lieutenant Zebulon Pike was the first official United States representative to explore the Upper Mississippi River which runs through the newly acquired land and present-day Davenport.

Other Poe landmarks include a building in the Upper West Side, where Poe temporarily lived when he first moved to New York.

The first languages for which standardisation was promoted included Italian (" questione della lingua ": Modern Tuscan / Florentine vs. Old Tuscan / Florentine vs. Venetian > Modern Florentine + archaic Tuscan + Upper Italian ), French ( the standard is based on Parisian ), English ( the standard is based on the London dialect ) and ( High ) German ( based on the dialects of the chancellery of Meissen in Saxony, Middle German and the chancellery of Prague in Bohemia (" Common German ")).

One of the first painters in the post-classical period to use this technique was the Isaac Master in the Upper Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi.

In the first years of the 1st century, Roman legions conducted a long campaign in Germania, the area north of the Upper Danube and east of the Rhine, in an attempt to expand the Empire's frontiers and shorten its frontier line.

As part of his reorganization of the empire in 300 AD, the Emperor Diocletian separated the administration of Crete from Cyrenaica and in the latter formed the new provinces of " Upper Libya " and " Lower Libya ", using the term Libya for the first time as an administrative designation.

The first traces of human presence in Albania were found in the village Xarrë, near Sarandë and Mount Dajt near Tiranë dating to the Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic eras.

As soon as Henry succeeded his father in 1201, he had to struggle with his Piast relatives, at first with his uncle Duke Mieszko IV Tanglefoot who immediately seized the Upper Silesian Duchy of Opole.

John Graves Simcoe ( February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806 ) was a British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 – 1796.

Statue of John Graves Simcoe first Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario | Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada by Walter Seymour Allward 1903 Queen's Park ( Toronto )

Count István Széchenyi was the first adequately to appreciate his capacity, when in 1845 the young man first began his public career as president of the society for the regulation of the waters of the Upper Tisza river.

* Thinis, Egypt — Undiscovered city and centre of the Thinite Confederacy, the leader of which, Menes, united Upper and Lower Egypt and was the first pharaoh.

For the first two years of its existence, the team played its home games at the historic Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan.

As a result, NMU had the first Starbucks in Michigan's Upper Peninsula ( located in the Learning Resource Center ).

John Graves Simcoe was appointed Upper Canada's first Lieutenant-Governor in 1793.

During their first expedition the Akmana Field Party prospected the tributaries of the Arrabundio and then trekked across a spur of the Central Mountain Range to sample the Upper Karrawaddi River.

Drilling of the first oil well began at Jebel Dukhan in October 1938 and, over a year later, the well struck oil in the Upper Jurassic limestone which, unlike the Bahraimi strike, was similar to Saudi Arabia ’ s Dammam field discovered three years before .< ref >" The Qatar Oil Discoveries " by Rasoul Sorkhabi < http :// www. geoexpro. com / history / qatardiscoveries ></ ref > Production was halted between 1942 and 1947 because of World War II and its aftermath.

His maternal grandfather was William Lyon Mackenzie, first mayor of Toronto and leader of the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837.