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It is the oldest standing church in the Americas and the oldest church building in the Dominican Republic (Roman Catholic) St. Paul's Church, Malacca , Malaysia , built in 1521 as a Roman Catholic chapel and finally abandoned in 1753.
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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.
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 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]