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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 ...
Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...
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The Old School Baptist Church, historically known as the First Baptist Church of Hopewell, is located at 46 West Broad Street in the borough of Hopewell in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. The red brick church was built in 1822. The adjoining Old School Baptist Cemetery was established in 1747.
List of the oldest buildings in the world; Oldest buildings in Canada by province or territory. List of oldest buildings and structures in Toronto; List of oldest buildings and structures in Macau; Oldest buildings in the United Kingdom. Oldest buildings in Scotland; Oldest buildings in the United States. List of the oldest buildings in Connecticut
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 ...
One of the city’s oldest continuously operating Black churches, Greater Warner Tabernacle AME Zion Church, was founded in 1845, Booker said, but it has moved several times in its history. It was ...