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  2. List of oldest church buildings - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. Category:Religious buildings and structures by year - Wikipedia

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    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)

  4. List of the oldest buildings in the United States - Wikipedia

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    before 1200 Religious Largest heiau remaining on the Island of Kauai and one of the largest surviving temple platforms in the Hawaiian Islands. Casa Grande: Coolidge: AZ c. 1200s Religious Hohokam structures built in the 13th century that includes a large four-story structure that is protected by a New Deal era canopy. West Oak Forest ...

  5. Architecture of cathedrals and great churches - Wikipedia

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    Other early Roman churches are built on the sites of Christian martyrdom or at the entrance to catacombs where Christians were buried. The first very large Christian churches were built in Rome and have their origins in the early 4th century, when with Edict of Milan the emperors Constantine and Licinius continued the legalization of ...

  6. Sacral architecture - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Timeline of architecture - Wikipedia

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    300s – Nalanda, an ancient center of higher learning, is built in Gupta Empire in India. 296–306 – Baths of Diocletian in Rome. [4] 262 – Arch of Gallienus in Rome completed. 231 – Dura-Europos church in Syria, a house built c.200 converted into a Christian Church. [3] 224 – Dura-Europos synagogue one of the oldest synagogues.

  8. Early Christian art and architecture - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of oldest extant buildings - Wikipedia

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    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 ...