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| − | [[Image:Olney_church.jpg|thumb|center|The church building in the village in [[Olney]].]] |
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| − | subtopics = [[Famous church buildings index]]
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| − | * [[Cathedral]] | [[Basilica]] | [[Chapel]]
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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.
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| − | ===History of church buildings===
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| − | The first Christians were, like Jesus, Jews resident in Israel who worshiped on occasion in the Temple in Jerusalem and weekly in local synagogues.
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| − | 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.
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| − | Many of these early Christians met in homes, sometimes called house-churches.
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| − | As the number of Christians grew during, numbers became too large to meet in houses, and congregations began to build or acquire buildings that were specifically for Christian worship. A number of pagan temples were converted into churches, especially following the adoption of Christianity as the state religion by the Roman Empire in the fourth century. A famous example of this is the [[Pantheon]] in [[Rome]], once used for a temple to pagan gods, it was later used as a church (it is now only a tourist attraction).
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| − | ===Famous church buildings===
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| − | ===Photos of churches===
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| − | Image:DCP 4427.jpg|The main church in [[Echmiadzin]], the physical centre of the [[Armenian Orthodox Church]]
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| − | Image:Wittenburg church door gg.jpg|The door of the famous church in [[Wittenburg]] where [[Martin Luther]] is thought to have nailed his [[95 Theses]] to the door
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| − | Image:Olney church.jpg|The church in [[Olney]] where [[John Newton]], author of the hymn [[Amazing Grace (song)|Amazing Grace]] worked
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| − | Image:Stanfordmemorialchurch.jpg|Stanford Memorial Church in [[California]]
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| − | Image:Trinity baptist colonel light gardens.jpg|A small local church, [[Trinity Baptist Church (Colonel Light Gardens, South Australia)|Trinity Baptist Church]] in [[Adelaide]], [[Australia]], once known as the "City of Churches"
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| − | Image:Église Collégiale Sainte Marthe (Tarascon).jpg|The Église Collégiale Sainte Marthe in [[Tarascon]], [[France]]
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