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Aqaba Church

location_on Aqaba, Aqaba Governorate, Jordan
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About Aqaba Church

Aqaba Church is a ancient third-century church positioned in Aqaba, Jordan. It turned into unearthed in 1998 by a collection of archaeologists and is taken into consideration to be the arena's oldest-recognised reason-constructed Christian church. Its first segment turned into dated among 293 and 303, which makes it older than the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, each of which were built within the late 320s.

The Aqaba church become built sometime in the overdue third or the start of the fourth century, as indicated by means of the pottery unearths from its foundations. Its first segment turned into dated among 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 constructed within the late 320s. It predates Diocletian's anti-Christian persecution of 303 to 313, one of the best in Roman records, at some stage in which the constructing turned into seemingly abandoned.The Great Persecution resulted in the removal of several Christian homes within the region; this church's well-preserved popularity is attributed to its peripheral location in the Roman Empire.

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