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St. Anne's Church, constructed by the Portuguese in 1792, built in European and Gothic styles, one of the oldest Churches in South India, in Virajpet, Coorg. [ 81 ] Her Majesty's Royal Chapel of the Mohawks , constructed in 1785 for the Mohawk people led by Joseph Brant , first Protestant church in Upper Canada (Anglican)
Church plan. Above right is the baptistery.. The Christian chapel at Dura-Europos was a domus ecclesiae that occupied an old, private dwelling in the ancient city's M8 block, along the western rampart of the city, opposite Gate 17, a short distance south of the main door.
In the 7th century, the structure was converted into a church, becoming the chapel of a Benedictine nunnery. A new nave was constructed in the 11th century with further interior renovations. In the 16th century Metz was besieged by the troops of Charles V and later was converted into an important garrison town by the French. The building became ...
A 1982 Soviet guidebook called it the "first Christian church to be built on the territory of the Soviet Union", [223] while travel writer Georgi Kublitsky wrote in 1984 that the cathedral is "believed by some to be the oldest extant building on Soviet territory."
St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Parumala, Orthodox Syrian Church containing the tomb of Saint Mar Gregorios. Mor Ignatius Dayro Manjinikkara, Omallur, Kerala; St. Mary's Church, Thiruvithamcode, Tamil Nadu, considered to be World's oldest still standing church structure. Marthoma Cheriyapally Church; St. Thomas Mount. Place where St. Thomas ...
[citation needed] Montmartre (originally Mons Martis, "Mount of Mars", later re-interpreted as Mons martyris, "Mountain of the martyr") was the site of one of the oldest surviving Christian churches in France—Saint Pierre was earlier a mercurii monte—a high place dedicated to Lugus, a major Celtic deity (and one that the Romans viewed as a ...
It is one of the oldest Christian religious centres in Western Europe. The abbey was a focal point for the spread of Christianity throughout Scotland and marks the foundation of a monastic community by St. Columba, when Iona was part of the Kingdom of Dál Riata.
A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe. The name derives from the building's structure of post and lintel construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing ore-pine posts are called stafr in Old Norse ( stav in modern Norwegian ).