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Renaissance, Baroque, and colonial
10 places connected through architectural family. Read them together to see both shared patterns and the local histories that resist a single Christian story.
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Churches across Christian history
Modern & Global · CatholicSt. Peter's BasilicaVatican City, Rome, Vatican City1506–1626 (current basilica); c. 333 AD (original)The mother church of Catholic Christendom, built over the tomb of St. Peter.Read the full history Reformation · Church of South India with Portuguese, Dutch, and Anglican historySt. Francis Church, KochiFort Kochi, Kerala, IndiaPortuguese church established in the early 16th centuryA modest Fort Kochi church that passed from Portuguese Catholic to Dutch Reformed to Anglican and united Protestant use, recording shifting empires on India’s coast.Read the full history Reformation · CatholicSé Cathedral of GoaOld Goa, IndiaConstruction begun 1562; completed in the 17th centuryThe immense cathedral of Portuguese Goa, built as a monument of conquest and archiepiscopal power within an Indian Christian landscape older and wider than empire.Read the full history Reformation · Catholic — Jesuit heritageBasilica of Bom JesusOld Goa, India1594–1605The Jesuit basilica housing the body of Francis Xavier, a center of Asian Catholic pilgrimage and a monument inseparable from mission and colonial expansion.Read the full history Modern & Global · CatholicSan Agustin Church, ManilaIntramuros, Manila, PhilippinesStone church built 1587–1607; earlier foundations from 1571The oldest surviving stone church in the Philippines, carrying the intertwined histories of faith, empire, war, and Filipino artistry.Read the full history Reformation · AnglicanSt. Paul’s Cathedral, LondonLondon, United KingdomPresent cathedral built 1675–1710 on an ancient Christian siteChristopher Wren’s domed cathedral rebuilt after London’s Great Fire, serving parish, city, empire, nation, protest, mourning, and Anglican worship.Read the full history Reformation · CatholicMission San Xavier del BacTohono O’odham Nation near Tucson, Arizona, United StatesMission established 1692; present church 1783–1797The white mission church of Wa:k, built within Tohono O’odham homeland and sustained as a living parish beyond romantic images of Spanish colonial architecture.Read the full history Reformation · LutheranFrauenkirche DresdenDresden, GermanyBaroque church built 1726–1743; reconstructed 1994–2005Dresden’s great domed Lutheran church, destroyed in the 1945 firestorm and rebuilt from recovered stones as a contested but powerful sign of remembrance.Read the full history Reformation · MoravianBerthelsdorf Church and the Herrnhut RenewalBerthelsdorf and Herrnhut, GermanyMedieval parish; central to the Moravian renewal of 1727The village church linked with the 1727 Moravian communion service that became a remembered turning point in renewal, prayer, community, and mission.Read the full history Reformation · CatholicMission San Carlos Borromeo de CarmeloCarmel-by-the-Sea, California, United StatesMission founded 1770; Carmel site established 1771Junípero Serra’s California headquarters and burial church, requiring an account of Franciscan mission, Indigenous labor, coercion, devotion, loss, and survival.Read the full history