The Dura-Europos church (or Dura-Europos house church) is the earliest identified Christian house church. It was located in Dura-Europos, Syria, and one...

The Dura-Europos synagogue was an ancient synagogue uncovered at Dura-Europos, Syria, in 1932. The synagogue contains a forecourt and house of assembly...

Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the Euphrates...

in Jerusalem was the "first Christian church." The Dura-Europos church in Syria is the oldest surviving church building in the world, while the archaeological...

public church buildings. Clement of Alexandria, an early church father, wrote of worshipping in a house. The Dura-Europos church, a private house in Dura-Europos...

earliest archeologically identified Christian church is a house church (domus ecclesiae), the Dura-Europos church, founded between 233 and 256. In the second...

there as Dura Parch. 10. On March 5, 1933, during the excavations conducted by Clark Hopkins amongst the ruins of a Roman border-town, Dura-Europos, on the...

(Richard Dawkins). Some of the earliest depictions of Jesus at the Dura-Europos church are firmly dated to before 256. Thereafter, despite the lack of biblical...

to depict God. However, early Christian art, such as that of the Dura Europos church, displays the Hand of God, a theological symbol representing the...

tomb of Jesus is a fairly large fresco in the Dura-Europos church in the ancient city of Dura Europos on the Euphrates. The fresco was painted before...

times and to varying extents by these empires. The ruins of the Dura-Europos church, dating from the first half of the 3rd century are concrete evidence...

"Apostle of the apostles". Other Protestant churches honor her as a heroine of the faith. The Eastern Orthodox churches also commemorate her on the Sunday of...

at Dura-Europos, where the decoration of the church is comparable in style and quality to that of the (larger and more lavishly painted) Dura-Europos synagogue...

symbols, though he is also portrayed. In the Dura-Europos church, of about 230–256, which of the very early churches surviving is in the best condition, there...

Christian figures first appear in number. The recently excavated Dura-Europos house church on the borders of Syria dates from around 265 AD and holds many...

function as churches. One of the earliest of adapted residences is at Dura Europos church, built shortly after 200 AD, where two rooms were made into one,...

appear in the wall-paintings of the baptistery of the Dura-Europos church, a house-church at Dura-Europos before 256 CE, and more familiarly in sixth-century...

The Battle of Samhain is fought in Ireland (approximate date). The Dura-Europos church is converted from a house in Syria (approximate date). Cao Mao, Chinese...

Rome completed. 231 – Dura-Europos church in Syria, a house built c.200 converted into a Christian Church. 224 – Dura-Europos synagogue one of the oldest...

communities were producing figure art. The frescos decorating the interior of Dura-Europos synagogue (c. 240 AD) depict many scenes from the Tanakh. They are the...

The Battle of Samhain is fought in Ireland (approximate date). The Dura-Europos church is converted from a house in Syria (approximate date). Emperor Gordian...

Dura-Europos Temple of Atargatis, Dura-Europos Temple of the Gadde, Dura-Europos Temple of Adonis, Dura-Europos Temple of Artemis Azzanathkona, Dura -Europos...

The most famous come from the Dura-Europos synagogue, and date from around 244-256; those in the Dura-Europos church may be a few years older. At Bishapur...

painting Dura Europos synagogue Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones cycle Dura Europos synagogue Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones cycle Dura Europos synagogue...

Older churches discovered in other parts of the world were not originally used as such, a famous case being the 3rd-century house church at Dura-Europos. North...

the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2020-08-01. "Church of Dura-Europos · Christian Architecture Through the Middle Ages · Medieval Art"...

research knowledge in Parthian art is not complete. The excavations at Dura-Europos in the 20th century provided many new discoveries. The classical archaeologist...

known Christian house church. Jewish Museum in New York, that opened in 1947, exhibited Gute's copies of frescoes from Dura-Europos synagogue. Clark Hopkins...

Jewish texts. The earliest surviving depiction in art is a fresco in the Dura-Europos synagogue, datable to around 244 AD, whose motif of a "naked princess"...

the tomb. One of the other earliest depictions is in the house church of Dura-Europos, in the baptistery room, from the 3rd or 4th century. It depicts...