Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Basilica di San Nicola da Tolentino was the first minor basilica to be canonically created, in 1783. The 1917 Code of Canon Law officially recognised churches using the title of basilica from immemorial custom as having such a right to the title of minor basilica. Such churches are referred to as immemorial basilicas. [2]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica (Greek Basiliké) was a large public building with multiple functions that was typically built alongside the town's forum. The basilica was in the Latin West equivalent to a stoa in the Greek East. The building gave its name to the basilica architectural form.
The Basilica of St. Achilleios (Greek: Βασιλική του Αγίου Αχιλλείου) is an early Byzantine basilica on the acropolis of Larissa, Greece, dedicated to the city's patron saint, St. Achilleios. The church was discovered and excavated in 1978, during works on the local free-air market. [1]
Phú Nhai, now in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bùi Chu, was one of major Catholic parishes in Vietnam under the pastoral care of the Spanish Dominican Order. One of the first two bishops of the Vietnamese Catholic church, Pierre Lambert de la Motte was also anointed in the diocese in 1670.
Museum of Visual Arts in the old St. Mark Basilica. After the Greco-Turkish population exchange in 1924 and the departure of the island's Muslim community, the former mosque came to the hands of the National Bank of Greece, and then to the municipality of Heraklion, [7] and was used at first as a cinema. [6] The minaret was finally torn down in ...
The Cathedral of Saint Andrew also called Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew (Greek: Ιερός Ναός Αγίου Ανδρέου) or simply Hagios Andreas is a Greek Orthodox basilica in the west side of the city center of Patras in Greece.
The Hagia Sophia (Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, Holy Wisdom) is a church located in Thessaloniki, Greece.With its current structure dating from the 7th century, it is one of the oldest churches in the city still standing today.