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Documents & Confessions

The Didache

An early church manual joining moral instruction, baptism, fasting, Eucharistic prayers, hospitality, and community leadership.

Late first or early second century · Eastern Mediterranean, possibly Syria
Documents & Confessions

The Rule of Saint Benedict

A compact rule for communal monastic life organized around prayer, work, stability, hospitality, and accountable authority.

c. 530 · Italy and later Western Europe
Documents & Confessions

The Book of Common Prayer

The liturgical book that placed common English prayer at the center of Anglican worship and carried it around the world.

1549–present · England and the global Anglican Communion
Documents & Confessions

The Augsburg Confession

The principal Lutheran confession presented to Emperor Charles V during the political and theological crisis of the Reformation.

1530 · Augsburg, Holy Roman Empire
Documents & Confessions

The Thirty-Nine Articles

A concise doctrinal settlement locating the Church of England within the Reformation while retaining episcopal and liturgical continuity.

1563; authorized 1571 · England
Documents & Confessions

The Heidelberg Catechism

A Reformed catechism organized around guilt, grace, and gratitude and remembered for its pastoral opening about belonging to Christ.

1563 · Electoral Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire
Documents & Confessions

The Westminster Standards

A confession, catechisms, and church-order texts produced amid civil war that became foundational for Presbyterian and Reformed churches.

1646–1648 · London, England; later Scotland and global Presbyterianism
Documents & Confessions

The Canons of Dort

A synodical response to the Remonstrants that defined a durable Reformed account of grace, election, atonement, and perseverance.

1619 · Dordrecht, Dutch Republic
Documents & Confessions

The Decrees of the Council of Trent

The doctrinal decrees and reform canons through which Catholic leaders answered Protestant challenges and pursued institutional renewal.

1545–1563 · Trent and Bologna, Italy
Documents & Confessions

The Barmen Theological Declaration

A six-part declaration rejecting the subordination of the church’s proclamation and order to National Socialist ideology.

1934 · Barmen, Germany
Documents & Confessions

Nostra Aetate

The Second Vatican Council declaration that reframed Catholic relations with Judaism and addressed other religious traditions with respect.

1965 · Vatican City with global reception
Documents & Confessions

The Lausanne Covenant

A global evangelical covenant linking biblical authority, evangelism, social responsibility, cooperation, culture, and mission.

1974 · Lausanne, Switzerland; global evangelical Christianity
Documents & Confessions

The Belhar Confession

A Reformed confession born under apartheid that centers the church’s unity, reconciliation, and justice.

1982–1986 · South Africa
Documents & Confessions

The Philokalia

An anthology of Eastern Christian ascetic and contemplative texts centered on watchfulness, prayer, and transformation.

1782 compilation; texts from fourth–fifteenth centuries · Greek-speaking Orthodox world and wider Eastern Christianity
Orders & Movements

Desert Monasticism

Networks of ascetics whose experiments in solitude and community reshaped Christian prayer, discipline, authority, and spiritual writing.

Third–fifth centuries · Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and the wider late antique world
Orders & Movements

Benedictine Monasticism

A family of autonomous monasteries shaped by the Rule of Benedict and its rhythm of prayer, work, reading, stability, and hospitality.

Sixth century–present · Western Europe and global communities
Orders & Movements

The Cistercian Reform

A monastic reform emphasizing stricter Benedictine observance, simpler worship and buildings, manual labor, and linked abbeys.

1098–present · France and wider Europe; later global communities
Orders & Movements

The Franciscan Movement

A diverse family inspired by Francis and Clare of Assisi to follow Christ through poverty, fraternity, preaching, contemplation, and service.

Early thirteenth century–present · Italy and worldwide
Orders & Movements

The Dominican Order

An order of preachers joining common life, study, itinerant ministry, and theological teaching.

1216–present · Europe and worldwide
Orders & Movements

The Society of Jesus

A Catholic religious order organized for mission, education, spiritual direction, scholarship, and service under a distinctive vow of availability.

1540–present · Founded in Europe; active worldwide
Orders & Movements

The Anabaptist Movement

Diverse radical reform communities associated with believers’ baptism, disciplined discipleship, voluntary church membership, and contested relations to political power.

1520s–present · Central Europe and later global communities
Orders & Movements

The Moravian Renewal

A refugee community whose 1727 renewal fostered sustained prayer, transnational mission, hymnody, and ecumenical spirituality.

1722–present · Herrnhut, Saxony, and worldwide
Orders & Movements

The Methodist Movement

A revival and discipleship movement organized through societies, classes, field preaching, hymnody, and a theology of grace seeking holiness.

1730s–present · Britain, North America, and worldwide
Orders & Movements

The Oxford Movement

An Anglican renewal that recovered patristic, sacramental, liturgical, and catholic claims within a church pressured by political and modern intellectual change.

1833–1845 and later influence · England and the Anglican Communion
Orders & Movements

The Holiness Movement

A Wesleyan-rooted network emphasizing entire sanctification, disciplined life, revival, social reform, and lay testimony.

Nineteenth century–present · North America, Britain, and global missions
Orders & Movements

The Pentecostal Movement

A many-centered Christian movement emphasizing the present work of the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts, healing, testimony, and expectant worship.

Early twentieth century–present · Multiple early centers; now global
Orders & Movements

The Ecumenical Movement

Networks seeking visible Christian unity through mission cooperation, dialogue, common witness, councils, and local relationships.

Nineteenth century–present · Global
Orders & Movements

Liberation Theology

A family of contextual theologies reading Scripture and Christian practice from the experience of poverty, oppression, and organized struggle for liberation.

1960s–present · Latin America with global contextual forms
Orders & Movements

The East African Revival

An African-led renewal network emphasizing public testimony, repentance, reconciliation, fellowship, and a “walk in the light.”

1930s–present · Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and neighboring regions
Orders & Movements

The Black Church Freedom Movement

Black Christian institutions and networks that joined worship, survival, education, organizing, theological critique, and struggles for freedom.

Eighteenth century–present; civil-rights focus 1950s–1960s · United States with wider Atlantic connections
Orders & Movements

Global Evangelicalism

A broad family emphasizing conversion, Scripture, the cross, active faith, mission, and voluntary networks across denominational boundaries.

Eighteenth century–present · Transnational and globally diverse
Worship & Practices

Christian Baptism

The water rite of Christian initiation, practiced across the Church but understood through different accounts of faith, grace, covenant, discipleship, and belonging.

First century–present · Global Christianity
Worship & Practices

Eucharist and Holy Communion

The shared meal of bread and wine in remembrance of Jesus, thanksgiving to God, communion in Christ, and anticipation of the kingdom.

First century–present · Global Christianity
Worship & Practices

The Daily Office

A recurring rhythm of psalms, Scripture, prayer, and praise that sanctifies the hours of ordinary life.

First centuries–present · Global liturgical Christianity
Worship & Practices

The Divine Liturgy

The Eucharistic worship of Byzantine Christianity, joining Scripture, hymnody, procession, offering, intercession, and communion.

Late antique forms–present · Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches
Worship & Practices

Confession and Reconciliation

Practices of naming sin, receiving forgiveness, repairing communion, and seeking changed life before God and the Church.

First century–present · Global Christianity
Worship & Practices

Christian Fasting

Voluntary limits on food and other goods used for prayer, repentance, preparation, solidarity, and disciplined attention to God.

First century–present · Global Christianity
Worship & Practices

Christian Pilgrimage

Travel undertaken as prayer, remembrance, penance, encounter, or solidarity at places connected to Scripture, saints, suffering, and community memory.

Ancient Christianity–present · Global sacred landscapes
Worship & Practices

Veneration of Icons

The devotional honoring of sacred images as witnesses to the incarnation and participants in Christian memory, carefully distinguished from worship owed to God.

Early Christian images–present · Eastern Christianity with wider Christian use of images
Worship & Practices

Christian Preaching

Public interpretation and proclamation through which communities hear Scripture addressed to their own worship, decisions, suffering, and hope.

First century–present · Global Christianity
Worship & Practices

Hymnody and Congregational Song

Christian belief and prayer carried through psalms, hymns, chants, spirituals, chorales, gospel music, and locally composed song.

First century–present · Global Christianity
Worship & Practices

Lectio Divina

A prayerful pattern of reading, meditation, response, and contemplation that receives Scripture as address rather than information alone.

Patristic and monastic roots–present · Western monasticism and wider global reception
Worship & Practices

Foot Washing

An embodied practice of service and humility rooted in Jesus washing his disciples’ feet in John 13.

First century–present · Global Christianity
Manuscripts & Artifacts

Codex Sinaiticus

One of the earliest substantially complete Christian Bibles, written in Greek on parchment and preserved through a complex modern history.

Fourth century · Eastern Mediterranean; preserved in multiple modern institutions
Manuscripts & Artifacts

Codex Vaticanus

A fourth-century Greek Bible and one of the most important witnesses for reconstructing early biblical texts.

Fourth century · Eastern Mediterranean; Vatican Apostolic Library
Manuscripts & Artifacts

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Ancient Jewish manuscripts that transformed knowledge of the Bible and the religious world in which Christianity emerged.

Third century BC–first century AD; discovered 1947–1950s · Qumran and the Judean Desert
Manuscripts & Artifacts

The Nag Hammadi Codices

A collection of Coptic codices preserving diverse late antique religious works, including texts associated with several forms of Christian Gnosticism.

Fourth-century codices; earlier compositions · Upper Egypt
Manuscripts & Artifacts

The Book of Kells

An elaborately illuminated Latin Gospel book created within the monastic networks of Ireland and Britain.

c. 800 · Insular monastic world; Trinity College Dublin
Manuscripts & Artifacts

The Lindisfarne Gospels

An illuminated Gospel book combining Insular, Mediterranean, and Germanic visual traditions within a Northumbrian monastic setting.

Early eighth century · Lindisfarne, Northumbria; British Library
Manuscripts & Artifacts

Rabbula Gospels

Rabbula Gospels opens a focused path through Christian history: a dated Syriac Gospel manuscript famous for illuminated canon tables and later inserted images, raising questions of production, attribution, liturgy, and restoration

From c. 586 · Mesopotamia and Florence
Manuscripts & Artifacts

Rossano Gospels

Rossano Gospels opens a focused path through Christian history: a purple-dyed Greek Gospel manuscript with silver script and narrative miniatures that connects luxury production, biblical interpretation, Byzantine art, and later preservation

From c. 550 · Eastern Mediterranean and Calabria
Manuscripts & Artifacts

Garima Gospels

Garima Gospels opens a focused path through Christian history: early illuminated Geʽez Gospel books whose dating, art, text, monastic preservation, and local tradition reshape accounts of African manuscript culture

From c. 500 · Ethiopia
Manuscripts & Artifacts

The Shroud of Turin

A linen cloth bearing the image of a crucified man, venerated by many Christians and disputed intensely in historical and scientific study.

Documented from fourteenth century; claimed connection to antiquity · Turin, Italy
Manuscripts & Artifacts

The Xi’an Stele

A Chinese and Syriac inscription recording the presence, vocabulary, institutions, and imperial setting of the Church of the East in Tang China.

781 · Chang’an, Tang China
Manuscripts & Artifacts

The Sinai Palimpsests

Reused parchment manuscripts whose erased lower texts preserve rare biblical, liturgical, medical, and classical works in multiple languages.

Late antique and medieval layers · Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai
Institutions & Learning

Christian Learning at Alexandria

Teachers, bishops, libraries, and contested intellectual networks that made Alexandria a major center of early Christian biblical and theological interpretation.

Second–fifth centuries · Alexandria, Roman Egypt
Institutions & Learning

The School of Nisibis

A major Syriac Christian teaching community that joined biblical interpretation, poetry, language, and clerical formation across imperial frontiers.

Fourth–seventh centuries · Nisibis, northern Mesopotamia
Institutions & Learning

Monte Cassino and Its Scriptorium

A Benedictine monastery whose library, writing, reform, destruction, and rebuilding became symbols of Western monastic memory.

Sixth century–present, with repeated destructions · Cassino, Italy
Institutions & Learning

Theology at the Medieval University of Paris

A guild-like university environment in which lectures, disputations, religious orders, bishops, and royal power reshaped Latin theology.

Twelfth–fifteenth centuries · Paris, France
Institutions & Learning

The University of Wittenberg

A young territorial university whose biblical lectures, printing networks, political protection, and faculty community became a center of Lutheran reform.

Founded 1502; Reformation center from 1510s · Wittenberg, Electoral Saxony
Institutions & Learning

The Geneva Academy

A Reformed school for classical learning, theology, ministry, and civic formation that sent graduates into churches across Europe.

Founded 1559 · Geneva and international Reformed networks
Institutions & Learning

The Vatican Apostolic Library

A major research library preserving manuscripts, printed books, coins, and archival collections across Christian, Jewish, Islamic, classical, and global cultures.

Formally founded 1475; older papal collections · Vatican City
Institutions & Learning

Serampore College

An educational institution founded by Baptist missionaries that became part of a much larger Indian Christian and higher-education history.

Founded 1818 · Serampore, India
Institutions & Learning

Union Theological Seminary in New York

An ecumenical seminary associated with biblical scholarship, liberal and neo-orthodox theology, social Christianity, civil rights, and public debate.

Founded 1836 · New York City, United States
Institutions & Learning

The World Council of Churches

A fellowship of churches pursuing visible unity, common witness, theological dialogue, justice, peace, and humanitarian cooperation.

Founded 1948 · Global; headquarters in Geneva
Institutions & Learning

The Taizé Community

An ecumenical monastic community known for reconciliation, hospitality, repeated sung prayer, silence, and international youth gatherings.

Founded 1940 · Taizé, France; global youth and prayer networks
Institutions & Learning

Fuller Theological Seminary

An evangelical seminary formed to unite rigorous scholarship, mission, pastoral training, and engagement across a widening evangelical world.

Founded 1947 · California, United States, with global networks
Guided History Journeys

A Journey Through Early Christianity

Follow the movement from Jewish Jesus communities through mission, persecution, worship, canon formation, councils, empire, and enduring division.

First–fifth centuries · Mediterranean, Africa, Asia, and Europe
Guided History Journeys

The Seven Ecumenical Councils

Trace the councils received by Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches from Nicaea to the restoration of icons.

325–787 · Roman and Byzantine imperial Christianity
Guided History Journeys

Christianity Across Africa

A continental journey from Alexandria, Carthage, Nubia, and Aksum through missions, independent churches, revival, liberation, and the world’s fastest-growing Christian populations.

First century–present · North, Northeast, West, Central, East, and Southern Africa
Guided History Journeys

The Eastern Christianities

Explore Byzantine, Oriental Orthodox, Church of the East, Eastern Catholic, and ancient Indian Christian histories without reducing the East to one church.

First century–present · Middle East, Africa, Caucasus, India, Central Asia, and diaspora
Guided History Journeys

The Protestant Reformations

Follow Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Radical, and Catholic reform in the plural rather than telling one inevitable break from Rome.

Sixteenth–seventeenth centuries · Europe and expanding global connections
Guided History Journeys

Women Across Christian History

Follow women as apostles, martyrs, patrons, theologians, monastics, mystics, missionaries, reformers, organizers, artists, and ordinary community leaders.

First century–present · Global Christianity
Guided History Journeys

Christianity Along the Silk Roads

Trace Syriac-speaking churches, merchants, monks, translators, and bishops across the connected routes of Asia.

Late antiquity–fourteenth century · Mesopotamia, Central Asia, India, and China
Guided History Journeys

Global Christianity After 1800

Follow mission, colonialism, migration, translation, indigenous churches, revival, decolonization, Pentecostal growth, and shifting Christian centers.

1800–present · Global
Guided History Journeys

Christian Worship Through Time

Follow Word, table, prayer, song, calendar, art, preaching, and initiation as shared acts took diverse historical forms.

First century–present · Global Christianity
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Italy

From Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia onward, explore Christianity in Italy through Catholic with ancient patriarchal heritage, Catholic, and Catholic with Byzantine heritage places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: 4th-century complex; present basilica largely 11th century · Italy
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in United Kingdom

From Canterbury Cathedral onward, explore Christianity in United Kingdom through Anglican, Church of England, and Church of Scotland places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: 597 AD (Augustine's mission); current structure from 1070 · United Kingdom
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in United States

From Mission San Xavier del Bac onward, explore Christianity in United States through Catholic, Episcopal, and African American Baptist heritage places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Mission established 1692; present church 1783–1797 · United States
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in France

From Abbey Church of Mont-Saint-Michel onward, explore Christianity in France through Catholic — Benedictine heritage, Catholic with Lutheran historical use, and Catholic places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: 10th–16th centuries on an earlier sanctuary · France
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Egypt

From Churches of the Monastery of Saint Anthony onward, explore Christianity in Egypt through Coptic Orthodox, Coptic Christian heritage, and Greek Orthodox places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 360 · Egypt
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Germany

From Aachen Cathedral onward, explore Christianity in Germany through Catholic, Lutheran, and Moravian places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Palatine Chapel begun c. 793; later medieval additions · Germany
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in India

From Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica onward, explore Christianity in India through Catholic, Church of South India with Portuguese, Dutch, and Anglican history, and Catholic with ancient Indian Christian context places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 1505 · India
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Philippines

From Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebu onward, explore Christianity in Philippines through Catholic — Augustinian, and Catholic places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Convent founded 1565; present church completed in the 18th century · Philippines
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Spain

From Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela onward, explore Christianity in Spain through Catholic, and Catholic with Islamic heritage places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Romanesque cathedral begun in 1075; major later additions · Spain
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Turkey

From Mor Gabriel Monastery Church onward, explore Christianity in Turkey through Syriac Orthodox, Shared apostolic pilgrimage site, and Orthodox places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 397 · Turkey
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Armenia

From Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin onward, explore Christianity in Armenia through Armenian Apostolic places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Traditionally AD 301–303; repeatedly rebuilt and enlarged · Armenia
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Georgia

From Jvari Monastery onward, explore Christianity in Georgia through Georgian Orthodox places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 590 · Georgia
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Greece

A history from Pauline communities through Byzantine worship, Ottoman rule, national autocephaly, migration, and contemporary Orthodox public life.

First century–present · Greece and Greek diaspora communities
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Brazil

From Church of São Bento Monastery onward, explore Christianity in Brazil through Catholic Benedictine, Catholic Franciscan, and Catholic places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 1633 · Brazil
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Ethiopia

From Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion onward, explore Christianity in Ethiopia through Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Ancient foundation tradition; present old church largely 17th century · Ethiopia
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in South Korea

From Saemoonan Church onward, explore Christianity in South Korea through Presbyterian, Catholic, and Pentecostal places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 1887 · South Korea
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Iraq

An ancient Syriac Christian history shaped by Mesopotamian cities, Persian and Islamic empires, monastic learning, modern nationhood, violence, displacement, and diaspora.

First centuries–present · Mesopotamia and Iraqi diaspora communities
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Japan

From Oura Church onward, explore Christianity in Japan through Catholic places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 1864 · Japan
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Mexico

From Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe onward, explore Christianity in Mexico through Catholic, and Catholic Dominican places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Current basilica dedicated in 1976; earlier shrine churches from the colonial period · Mexico
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Peru

From Cathedral Basilica of Lima onward, explore Christianity in Peru through Catholic places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Founded 1535; repeatedly rebuilt after earthquakes · Peru
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Portugal

From Alcobaça Monastery Church onward, explore Christianity in Portugal through Catholic Cistercian, and Catholic places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 1178 · Portugal
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Syria

From Dura-Europos Church onward, explore Christianity in Syria through Early Christian, and Early Syrian Christian heritage places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: House adapted for Christian use around AD 232–256 · Syria
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Australia

From Saint Patrick’s Cathedral Melbourne onward, explore Christianity in Australia through Catholic places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 1858 · Australia
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Canada

A history of indigenous encounter, French Catholic and British Protestant settlement, migration, denominations, residential schools, ecumenism, secularization, and multicultural churches.

Sixteenth century–present · Canada and indigenous homelands
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in China

A history of Syriac missions, Catholic encounters, Protestant translation, indigenous churches, political restriction, revival, and global Chinese Christian networks.

Seventh century–present · China and Chinese diaspora communities
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Israel / Palestine

From Church of Saint George at Lod onward, explore Christianity in Israel / Palestine through Greek Orthodox, and Catholic Benedictine places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 1870 · Israel / Palestine
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Jordan

From Aqaba Early Church onward, explore Christianity in Jordan through Early Christian archaeological heritage, and Greek Orthodox places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Late 3rd or early 4th century · Jordan
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in New Zealand

From Old Saint Paul’s onward, explore Christianity in New Zealand through Anglican heritage, and Catholic heritage places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 1866 · New Zealand
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Russia

From Dormition Cathedral, Moscow onward, explore Christianity in Russia through Russian Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox heritage places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: 1475–1479 · Russia
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Singapore

From Armenian Church of Saint Gregory the Illuminator onward, explore Christianity in Singapore through Armenian Apostolic, and Anglican places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 1835 · Singapore
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Sweden

From Lund Cathedral onward, explore Christianity in Sweden through Lutheran places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 1085 · Sweden
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Switzerland

From Grossmünster onward, explore Christianity in Switzerland through Swiss Reformed, and Reformed (Presbyterian) places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Romanesque church begun c. 1100; Reformed from 1520s · Switzerland
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Uganda

From Uganda Martyrs Basilica, Namugongo onward, explore Christianity in Uganda through Catholic, and Anglican — Church of Uganda places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Present basilica constructed 1967–1975 at an established martyr shrine · Uganda
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Argentina

From Basilica of Our Lady of Luján onward, explore Christianity in Argentina through Catholic places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 1887 · Argentina
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Bulgaria

From Church of the Nativity at Rila Monastery onward, explore Christianity in Bulgaria through Bulgarian Orthodox places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Monastery founded in the 10th century; present church 1830s · Bulgaria
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Chile

From Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago onward, explore Christianity in Chile through Catholic places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 1748 · Chile
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Colombia

From Las Lajas Sanctuary onward, explore Christianity in Colombia through Catholic places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Present church built 1916–1949 at an older pilgrimage site · Colombia
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Côte d’Ivoire

From Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro onward, explore Christianity in Côte d’Ivoire through Catholic places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: 1985–1989; consecrated 1990 · Côte d’Ivoire
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Croatia

From Euphrasian Basilica onward, explore Christianity in Croatia through Catholic with Byzantine heritage places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Present basilica built in the mid-6th century over earlier Christian structures · Croatia
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Czechia

From St. Vitus Cathedral onward, explore Christianity in Czechia through Catholic places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Gothic cathedral begun 1344; completed 1929 · Czechia
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Democratic Republic of the Congo

From Kimbanguist Temple at Nkamba onward, explore Christianity in Democratic Republic of the Congo through Kimbanguist places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: Movement founded 1921; great temple inaugurated 1981 · Democratic Republic of the Congo
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Denmark

From Roskilde Cathedral onward, explore Christianity in Denmark through Lutheran places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 1170 · Denmark
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Ecuador

From Church of the Society of Jesus in Quito onward, explore Christianity in Ecuador through Jesuit Catholic places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: From c. 1605 · Ecuador
Christianity by Country & Region

Christianity in Iran

From Vank Cathedral onward, explore Christianity in Iran through Armenian Apostolic places, worship, migration, conflict, and memory.

Earliest connected site: 1655–1664 · Iran

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Documents & Confessions

The Didache

Date
Late first or early second century
Region
Eastern Mediterranean, possibly Syria
Era
Apostolic & Early Church

An early church manual joining moral instruction, baptism, fasting, Eucharistic prayers, hospitality, and community leadership.

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Documents & Confessions

The Rule of Saint Benedict

Date
c. 530
Region
Italy and later Western Europe
Era
Medieval Christianity

A compact rule for communal monastic life organized around prayer, work, stability, hospitality, and accountable authority.

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