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Church of Santa Cruz

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Church of Santa Cruz
Church of Santa Cruz
Church of Santa Cruz
Church of Santa Cruz
Church of Santa Cruz
Church of Santa Cruz
Church of Santa Cruz
Church of Santa Cruz
Church of Santa Cruz
Church of Santa Cruz
Church of Santa Cruz
Church of Santa Cruz
Church of Santa Cruz
Church of Santa Cruz
Church of Santa Cruz
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Avenida de Contranquil, s/n, Cangas de Onis, Spain

This article lists some but by no means all of the oldest known church buildings in the world. In most instances, buildings listed here were reconstructed numerous times and only fragments of the original buildings have survived. These surviving, freestanding buildings were purposely constructed for use by congregations and the dates are the approximate dates when they were first used by congregations for worship. Church may also be used in the sense of Christian denomination, or in the singular as the Christian Church as a whole. The church is traced to Pentecost and the beginning of the Christian mission in the 1st century and was not used in reference to a building. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia the Cenacle in Jerusalem was the first Christian church. Archaeology magazine suggests that the Dura-Europos church in Syria is the oldest surviving church building in the world. While Jordan's Aqaba Church is considered to be the world's first purpose-built church. Several authors have cited the Etchmiadzin Cathedral as the oldest cathedral.
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