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The "church" (Greek ekklēsía, 'assembly') is traced to Pentecost and the beginning of the Christian mission in the first century and was not used in reference to a building. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia the Cenacle (the site of the Last Supper ) in Jerusalem was the "first Christian church."
Slash Church or Slash Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), oldest wooden frame church building in Virginia, built in 1729; The Falls Church, The Episcopal parish was established in 1732 and the brick meeting house preserved on site dates to 1769; Augusta Stone Church, (Presbyterian), oldest Presbyterian church in Virginia. The wood meeting ...
New Testament texts were written and church government was loosely organized in its first centuries, though the biblical canon did not become official until 382. Constantine the Great was the first Roman emperor to declare himself a Christian. In 313, he issued the Edict of Milan expressing tolerance for all religions.
This arrangement of the four canonical gospels as a continuous narrative, whose original language may have been Syriac, Greek, or even Latin, circulated widely in Syriac-speaking Churches. [149] A Christian council was held at Edessa as early as 197. [150] In 201 the city was devastated by a great flood, and the Christian church was destroyed ...
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia the Cenacle (the site of the Last Supper) in Jerusalem was the "first Christian church". [83] The Dura-Europos church in Syria is the oldest surviving church building in the world. [84] Several authors have cited the Etchmiadzin Cathedral (Armenia's mother church) as the oldest cathedral in the world. [85 ...
Megiddo church is an archaeological site near Tel Megiddo, Israel that preserves the foundations of one of the oldest Christian church buildings ever discovered by archaeologists. [1] The ruins contain one of the oldest inscriptions referring to the divinity of Jesus .
The parish's first church was erected in 1706 through the acquisition of a small parcel of land at the present-day intersection of Broad Street and Sycamore Avenue.
A 1982 Soviet guidebook called it the "first Christian church to be built on the territory of the Soviet Union", [224] while travel writer Georgi Kublitsky wrote in 1984 that the cathedral is "believed by some to be the oldest extant building on Soviet territory." [225]