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Church
A church
building is a building used in Christian worship.
Catholic
church , Baptist church , Christian church, Christ church
The
word "church" is derived through Middle and Old
English from the Greek word Lord's (house). However, most
English versions of the New Testament use the word "church"
to translate the Greek congregation assembly, a word originally
used in Greek without specific reference to religious gatherings.
In English,
the word can be used in reference to a gathering of people
for a religious meeting, but is sometimes used to refer
to a building or group of buildings. It is also used to
refer to a denomination that places the leadership of all
congregations in a central location, such as the "Roman
Catholic Church". It can also be used in an institutional
sense to refer to all churches, such as "... the church
today...."
Although
the Christian Bible says that the church is actually the
body of believers, in Jewish times, the temple at Jerusalem
held the presence of God in a place called the Holy of Holies.
After the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Bible
says that the Holy Spirit / presence of God is stored within
each believer.
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Origins
of Christian places of worship
The architecture of Christian worship space grew out of
the regular meetings of the followers of Christianity in
private houses and synagogues, and occasionally in catacombs
when necessary. When either the size of the community outgrew
the space or the complexity of the uses of the space outpaced
the architectural adaptation of houses, buildings began
to be built specifically for worship. This became much more
feasible and common when Constantine stopped the Roman persecution
of Christians by issuing the Edict of Milan in 311.
In the
first century
The first Christians were, like Jesus, Jews resident in
Palestine who worshipped on occasion in the Temple in Jerusalem
and weekly in local synagogues. Temple worship was a ritual
involving sacrifice, occasionally including the sacrifice
of animals in atonement for sin, offered to Yahweh. The
New testament includes many references to Jesus visiting
the Temple, the first time as an infant with his parents.
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The
early history of the synagogue is controverted, but it seems
to be an institution developed for public Jewish worship
during the Babylonian captivity when the Jews did not have
access to the Jerusalem Temple for ritual sacrifice. Instead,
to give a rough summary, they developed a daily and weekly
service of readings from the Torah or the prophets followed
by commentary. This could be carried out in a house if the
attendance was small enough, and in many towns of the Diaspora
that was the case. In others more elaborate architectural
settings developed, sometimes by converting a house and
sometimes by converting a previously public building. The
minimum requirements seem to have been a meeting room with
adequate seating, a case for the Torah scrolls, and a raised
platform for the reader and preacher.
Jesus
himself participated in this sort of service as a reader
and commentator (see Gospel of Luke 4: 16-24) and his followers
probably remained worshippers in synagogues in some cities.
However, following the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem
in 70, the new Christian movement and Judaism increasingly
parted ways. The Church became overwhelmingly Gentile sometime
in the second century.
For
the history of how services take place within a church,
see worship or do a search on any particular religious denomination
that you might be interested in.
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