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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.
The following are amongst the oldest buildings in the world that have maintained the requirements to be such. Occupation sites with older human made structures, such as those in Göbekli Tepe do exist, but the structures are monuments and do not meet the definition of building (which can be seen above). Many of the buildings within the list ...
Old Ship Church: Hingham: MA 1681 Religious Oldest church in continuous ecclesiastical use in the United States; only remaining 17th-century Puritan meeting house in America. [56] Hurd House: Woodbury: CT 1681 Residential The older, north section, dates to around 1680 and was the home of John Hurd, who became the town's miller in 1681.
The oldest remains include a double beehive cell and a grave and cross-slab associated with Eithne the mother of Columba. These are the oldest extant church buildings in Scotland and possibly Britain. [19] [20] [21] St Martin's Church, Canterbury: Canterbury, Kent 597 The oldest church building in England, still functioning as an Anglican ...
The designation of the oldest church in the United States requires careful use of definitions, and must be divided into two parts, the oldest in the sense of oldest surviving building, and the oldest in the sense of oldest Christian church congregation. There is a distinction between old church buildings that have been in continuous use as ...
A church monument is an architectural or sculptural memorial to a deceased person or persons, located within a Christian church. It can take various forms ranging from a simple commemorative plaque or mural tablet affixed to a wall, to a large and elaborate structure, on the ground or as a mural monument, which may include an effigy of the ...
Old Ship Church: 1681 1960 Hingham, MA: Vernacular: Puritan, Unitarian Universalist: St. Luke's Church: 1682 1960 Smithfield, VA: Anglican: Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow: 1685 1961 Sleepy Hollow, NY: Dutch Reformed Church: Old Quaker Meeting House of Queens: 1694–1719 1967 Queens, New York City, NY: Society of Friends: Merion Friends ...
The Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo is dedicated to St. Mary of the Incarnation. It is the oldest existing cathedral in the Americas, [1] begun in 1504 and was completed in 1550, and the second constructed, after the Garðar Cathedral Ruins in Greenland. [2]