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A church, church building, or church house is a building used for Christian worship services and other Christian religious activities. The earliest identified Christian church is a house church founded between 233 AD and 256 AD. [1] Sometimes, the word church is used erroneously to refer to the buildings of other religions, such as mosques and ...
Among the factors that determined how a church was designed and built are the nature of the local community, the location in city, town or village, whether the church was an abbey church, whether the church was a collegiate church, whether the church had the patronage of a bishop, whether the church had the ongoing patronage of a wealthy family ...
Churches in art (85 P) ... Church buildings converted to a different denomination (2 C, 43 P) D. Disasters in churches (3 C) E. Episcopal palaces (4 C, 48 P) F.
This category contains articles about church architecture and related architectural elements, rooms and spaces. This category should not be used for articles about individual buildings. Contents
The LDS Church opted to turn the building into one of its new smaller temples, and plans were announced in 1994. In addition to preserving the exterior, bringing the building up to code, and altering the floor plan, the eastern spire of the temple was elongated to make it taller than the spire of the neighboring stake center.
Madonna in the Church; Madonna of Chancellor Rolin; Madonna of Nicolas van Maelbeke; Maidenhair (painting) The Marble Steps Leading to the Church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome; La Mariée; The Marriage of the Prince of Wales; Medieval City on a River (Schinkel) The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (painting) Monument to Christopher Columbus ...
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[1] The Dura-Europos church in Syria is the oldest surviving church building in the world, [2] while the archaeological remains of both the Aqaba Church and the Megiddo church have been considered to be the world's oldest known purpose-built church, erected in the Roman Empire's administrative Diocese of the East in the 3rd century.