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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.
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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. This house's layout is typical of local domestic architecture; it had a square, central courtyard around which the ...
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 ...
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 ...
A 1982 Soviet guidebook called it the "first Christian church to be built on the territory of the Soviet Union", [226] while travel writer Georgi Kublitsky wrote in 1984 that the cathedral is "believed by some to be the oldest extant building on Soviet territory." [227]
The oldest parts of the church were completed in the 1480s and it is thus the oldest preserved building in the city. The church became a cathedral in 2004 after the Diocese of Espoo was split off from the Diocese of Helsinki. The cathedral grounds include a graveyard, a vicarage and a parish hall completed in 1995.
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 ...