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  2. List of oldest church buildings - Wikipedia

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    Santa Maria in Trastevere (wall structure and floors from the original structure) Rome: Italy: 340 340 Roman Catholic The first sanctuary was built in 221 and 227 by Pope Callixtus I and later completed by Julius I, but the oldest parts of the present church, the wall structure and floors, date from 340 AD [31] [32]

  3. Sanctuary of Hercules Victor (Tivoli) - Wikipedia

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    During the 5th and 6th centuries the sanctuary's possessions were taken, usurped, donated, occupied and eventually became the property of the Tiburtine Church which, from the 10th century onwards, used the Charta Cornutiana from the 5th century, recently found to be a forgery, [15] to claim the right of ownership.

  4. Chancel - Wikipedia

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    This is an arch which separates the chancel from the nave and transept of a church. [4] If the chancel, strictly defined as choir and sanctuary, does not fill the full width of a medieval church, there will usually be some form of low wall or screen at its sides, demarcating it from the ambulatory or parallel side chapels.

  5. Architecture of cathedrals and great churches - Wikipedia

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    The sanctuary is often separated from the body of the church by railings and screens, and, in the case of Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches, by an iconostasis which forms a complete visual as well as physical barrier. The sanctuary is usually the most ornately decorated part of a church, creating a visual focus towards the altar.

  6. Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes - Wikipedia

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    The sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes began with the Marian apparitions to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 in the town of Lourdes.On 11 February 1858, a 14-year-old peasant girl, called Bernadette Soubirous, said she saw a "lady" while playing near the grotto of Massabielle (from masse vieille: "old mass") with her sister and a friend, on the left bank of the Gave de Pau river. [1]

  7. Church architecture - Wikipedia

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    The final period of Ethiopian church architecture, which extends to the present day, is characterized by round churches with conical roofs – quite similar to the ordinary houses the inhabitants of the Ethiopian highlands live in. Despite this resemblance, the interiors are quite different in how their rooms are laid out, based on a three-part ...

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