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The Churches of Palestine and their Influence on Early Christian Architecture*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alfons Maria Schneider
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The churches of the Holy Land play a very special part in the lengthy controversies as to the origin and formation of the Christian basilica, since particular significance is attributed to them as constituting a norm from which the basilica type developed. For example, Wulff remarks :l ' If any region anywhere played a leading part in the development of the early Christian basilica, it is Palestine, including the whole coast of Syria to Philistia, where, under Constantine the Great, building was already developed with the express purpose of fostering the cult in the holy places '. This view, illuminating in and for itself, is today generally accepted ; it cannot, however, be maintained against the result of recent excavations. In this article chief emphasis is laid on the churches of Constantine, which are of especial importance not only because of their age, but in particular because they stand on the most sacred places of Christendom.

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Antiquity , Volume 12 , Issue 46 , June 1938 , pp. 172 - 182
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1938

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