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The present basilica was built just before the year 1100, but beneath it is an intact 4th-century basilica that had been converted out of the home of a Roman nobleman, part of which had in the 1st century briefly served as an early church. This ancient basilica retains fresco decoration (see image).
The Great Ziggurat of Ur was a temple built under King Ur-Nammu in honor of the goddess Nanna. It was partially reconstructed in the 1980s under Saddam Hussein. Western Deffufa: Sudan: Africa: 2000 BCE Temple The Western Deffufa, built some 4,000 years ago, is a temple rising almost 65 feet high, and built from sun baked mudbricks.
Churches by year of completion ... 0–9. Religious buildings and structures completed in 1500 (1 C, ... Religious buildings and structures completed in 1694 (2 C, ...
Ancient tombs and burial structures are also examples of architectural structures reflecting religious beliefs of their various societies. The Temple of Karnak at Thebes, Egypt was constructed across a period of 1300 years and its numerous temples comprise what may be the largest religious structure ever built.
The greatest cathedral building of the age was the rebuilding of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, the combined work of the architects Bramante, Raphael, Sangallo, Maderno and surmounted by Michelangelo's glorious dome, taller but just one foot narrower than the one that Brunelleschi had built a hundred years earlier in Florence. The dome is both an ...
8th-century religious buildings and structures (16 C, 10 P) 9th-century religious buildings and structures (17 C, 2 P) 10th-century religious buildings and structures (16 C, 4 P)
Jesus healing the bleeding woman, Roman catacombs, 300–350. Early Christian art and architecture (or Paleochristian art) is the art produced by Christians, or under Christian patronage, from the earliest period of Christianity to, depending on the definition, sometime between 260 and 525.
Religious buildings and structures by year (528 C) This page was last edited on 12 September 2021, at 06:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...