Was Jesus born in an inn?
Was Jesus born in an inn? When Jesus was born, Luke reports that Mary “wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the kataluma” (Luke 2:7). Most English Bibles translate kataluma as “inn,” but that is not the word's usual meaning. The normal Greek term for an “inn” is the word pandocheion.
What is the inn symbolic for?
Inn. For the early Christians this element readily symbolized the Church. An “inn” was “a public house open to all.” A public shelter is comparable to the Church of Christ in several ways.