Aqaba Church
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aqaba-church-190-17116247
title:
Aqaba Church
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Aqaba Church is a historic 3rd-century church located in Aqaba, Jordan. It was unearthed in 1998 by a group of archaeologists and is considered to be the world's oldest-known purpose-built Christian church. Its first phase was dated between 293 and 303, which makes it older than the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, both of which were built in the late 320s. Its peripheral location within the Roman Empire is likely to have saved it from destru
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Church building in Aqaba, Jordan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqaba_Church
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2023-11-26T05:48:43Z
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