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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).
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1500 (1 C, 6 P) Religious buildings and structures completed in 1501 (1 C, 2 P) Religious buildings and structures completed in 1502 (1 C, 3 P)
The oldest church or religious structure in the continental US built by indigenous Mexicans with Spanish Franciscans. C. A. Nothnagle Log House: Gibbstown: NJ c. 1638–43: Residential Purportedly the oldest surviving log house in the U.S., once part of New Sweden, and the oldest house in NJ, and hence Gloucester County [4] [5] Jamestown Church
Religious buildings by century of completion. ... Religious buildings and structures by year (528 C)-14th-century BC religious buildings and structures (3 P)
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 ...
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 ...
1050s – Greensted Church built, oldest surviving wooden church (extensively repaired) in the world, possibly the oldest wooden building in Europe. 1040s – 1030s – Gangaikonda Cholapuram built by the kingdom of Rajendra Chola I under Chola dynasty. 1020s – 1010s – 1000s – Brihadisvara Temple built by the kingdom of Rajaraja I under ...