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[1] The Dura-Europos church in Syria is the oldest surviving church building in the world, [2] while the archaeological remains of both the Aqaba Church and the Megiddo church have been considered to be the world's oldest known purpose-built church, erected in the Roman Empire's administrative Diocese of the East in the 3rd century.
Facade of the Church of St Peter, originally built ca. 1100 by Crusades and rebuilt in the 19th century. The Church of Saint Peter (also known as St. Peter's Cave Church and Cave-Church of St. Peter; Classical Syriac: Knisset Mar Semaan Kefa (romanization); Turkish: Aziz Petrus Kilisesi) near Antakya (), is composed of a cave carved into the mountainside on Mount Starius with a depth of 13 m ...
The designation of the oldest church in the United States requires careful use of definitions, and must be divided into two parts, the oldest in the sense of oldest surviving building, and the oldest in the sense of oldest Christian church congregation. There is a distinction between old church buildings that have been in continuous use as ...
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Legend has it that a church dedicated to him was first built on the present site, also the site of his tomb, in AD 66, [8] with another source placing the foundation in AD 239 by St. Gregory the Illuminator. [7] Another tradition states that Thaddeus built a monastery at the site for his followers, who buried him there upon his death.
The oldest church building on his list belongs to Immaculate Conception Church, which was constructed in 1886. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral’s building was completed a few years later in 1892.
Location of Aiken County in South Carolina. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Aiken County, South Carolina.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Aiken County, South Carolina, United States.
At this point the article seems to be straying away from its stated purpose (to list the oldest church buildings in the world) and just becomes a list of merely old churches. 108.254.160.23 ( talk ) 03:30, 27 July 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]