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Church Building
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A church building (or simply church) is a building used in Christian worship. Although the Church (the people that belong to Jesus) can meet anywhere, they have since early times built buildings specifically for worshipping God in. There are many well known church buildings around the world such as St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. A common architecture for churches is a building in the shape of a cross, often with a dome or other large vaulted space in the interior to represent or draw attention to the heavens.
History of church buildings
The first Christians were, like Jesus, Jews resident in Israel who worshiped on occasion in the Temple in Jerusalem and weekly in local synagogues.
Following the inclusion of non-Jews (Gentiles) into the church and later the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in AD 70, Christianity and Judaism increasingly parted ways.
Many of these early Christians met in homes.
Famous church buildings
Architecture types
Photos of churches
The main church in Echmiadzin, the physical centre of the Armenian Orthodox Church
The door of the famous church in Wittenburg where Martin Luther is thought to have nailed his 95 Theses to the door
The church in Olney where John Newton, author of the hymn Amazing Grace worked
Stanford Memorial Church in California
A small local church, Trinity Baptist Church in Adelaide, Australia, once known as the "City of Churches"
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