Mensa Christi Church

Is a Roman Catholic Church located in Nazareth. 

Christian tradition:

Mensa Christi, Latin for "Table of Christ", contains a large rectangular block of limestone (3.6 x 2.7 x 9 m) that, according to a pious legend, served as a table when Jesus had a meal with his disciples in his hometown. When a biblical reference needs to be applied, the quoted passage is from the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:14), where Jesus appears to the eleven remaining apostles after his resurrection and finds them reclining at the table and eating, and he scolds them for not believing those who had witnessed him having returned from the dead.

History:

In 1781 the Custody of the Holy Land bought the ruined church from the Muslims. The Franciscans initially built a chapel at this site in the latter half of the 18th century.

The current church, a renovation of the earlier chapel, was completed in 1861.