1. Dura-Europos church

The designation of the oldest church in the world requires a careful use of definitions, and must into two parts be divided, the oldest in the sense of the oldest received buildings and the oldest in the sense of the oldest Christian church municipality. There is the distinction between old buildings of churches, those also here been in continous use as churches its, and those, those for other purposes converted and between buildings, those in continous use than churches became and such, the window shops were for many decades. Regarding the municipalities, they were between beginning of established municipalities, those in continuous existence, and early municipalities to differentiate to exist stopped