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The Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo is dedicated to St. Mary of the Incarnation. It is the oldest existing cathedral in the Americas, [1] begun in 1504 and was completed in 1550, and the second constructed, after the Garðar Cathedral Ruins in Greenland. [2]
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 ...
[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.
Cathedral: Oldest extant Cathedral in Puerto Rico & the United States. [24] Original founding & wood structure of church dates to 1521 Iglesia de Balbanera: Cajabamba Ecuador: 1534 Church: Oldest extant building in Ecuador. Iglesia de La Merced: Granada Nicaragua: 1534 Church: Oldest extant building in Nicaragua. [25] Church of Saints Cosme and ...
The first church on the site was built in 1718; the third, under the Spanish rule, built in 1789, was raised to cathedral rank in 1793. The second St. Louis Cathedral was burned during the great fire of 1788 and was expanded and largely rebuilt and completed in the 1850s, [2] with little of the 1789 structure remaining.
Although the Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, is an older church building, and the Garðar Cathedral Ruins in Greenland were built and served as a cathedral much earlier, the Cathedral of San Juan holds the distinction of being the oldest existing purpose-built cathedral church in the Americas. [2]
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an Armenian church dating back almost 2,000 years, making it the oldest structure of its kind in the country and one of the oldest in the world.
Municipality Cathedral Image Location & References Coral Gables (Miami area) St. George Cathedral (Antiochian Orthodox) 25°44′43″N 80°15′41″W / 25.745164°N 80.261331°W / 25.745164; -80.261331 (St. George Cathedral, Coral Gables, Florida) Jacksonville St. John's Cathedral (Episcopal) 30°19′44″N 81°39′12″W / 30.328772°N 81.653423°W / 30.328772 ...