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Considered to be the world's first purpose-built church. [21] Etchmiadzin Cathedral: Vagharshapat: Armenia: 301 (tradition); current church: 483–484 Armenian Apostolic Church: According to scholars it was the first cathedral of the world (but not the first church) built in ancient Armenia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mar Sarkis Monastery ...
Mission Church, Mackinac Island, oldest church building, built 1829-30 (Congregational) Central United Methodist Church, Detroit, First Methodist and First Protestant congregation. Established 1810. Their first church building was built in 1818. In 2010 they celebrated their 200th Anniversary. [28] Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Detroit). Oldest ...
The Aqaba church was built sometime in the late third or the beginning of the fourth century, as indicated by the pottery finds from its foundations. [4] Its first phase was dated between 293 and 303, which makes it older than the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, both of which were built in the late 320s. [2]
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia the Cenacle (the site of the Last Supper) in Jerusalem was the "first Christian church". [82] The Dura-Europos church in Syria is the oldest surviving church building in the world. [83] Several authors have cited the Etchmiadzin Cathedral (Armenia's mother church) as the oldest cathedral in the world. [84 ...
The term church is open to interpretation and debate. However, for the purposes of this article, it will be used to mean any building which was built for the primary purpose of Christian worship, for any recognised denomination of Christianity.
A simple church may be built of mud brick, wattle and daub, split logs or rubble. It may be roofed with thatch, shingles, corrugated iron or banana leaves. However, church congregations, from the 4th century onwards, have sought to construct church buildings that were both permanent and aesthetically pleasing.
Church school built by the London Missionary Society. First school to be built in what is now American Samoa, and possibly the oldest surviving building in the territory. Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort: Las Vegas, Nevada: NV 1855 Military The oldest American structure in Nevada. [121] Fort Garland Officer's Quarters and Barracks Fort Garland: CO ...
This building was about 40 × 40 feet square (i.e.1,600-square-foot (150 m 2)). When it was built in 1774–75, the current meetinghouse represented a dramatic departure from the traditional Baptist meetinghouse style. It was the first Baptist meetinghouse to have a steeple and bell, making it more like Anglican and Congregational church ...