The Dura-Europos house church, ca.

The Dura-Europos church, a private house in Dura-Europos in Syria, was excavated in the 1930s and was found to be used as a Christian meeting place in AD 232, with one small room serving as a baptistry.

Some think that this synagogue was painted in order to compete with the many other religions practiced in Dura Europos ; the new ( and considerably smaller ) Christian church ( Dura-Europos church ) appears to have opened shortly before the surviving paintings were begun in the synagogue.

Scenes from the Book of Esther decorate the Dura-Europos synagogue dating from 244 CE

* The 2nd and 3rd century CE Dura-Europos synagogue in Syria is better preserved than other, older synagogues that have emerged from archaeological digs.

Scenes from the Book of Esther from the Dura-Europos synagogue, 244 CE

Fourth century archaeological finds ( especially from the fortress of Dura-Europos ) indicate the subsequent use of oval or round shields which were not semi-cylindrical, but were either dished ( bowl-shaped ) or flat.

The best surviving example, from Dura-Europos in Syria, was 1. 06 m ( 42 in ) in height, a chord of 0. 66 m ( 26 in ), with a distance around the curve of 0. 86 m ( 34 in ), and a thickness of 5 mm to 6 mm.

The Books of Kings feature strongly in the uniquely extensive wall-paintings of the Dura-Europos Synagogue from the 3rd century.

Here is an extremely rare example of a painted synagogue ( scenes from the Book of Esther ), 3rd c. CE, Byzantine empire, Dura-Europos synagogue | Dura Europos, Syria.

It is usually restricted to specific circumstances of space ( figurative images are absent from mosques, but not outside their walls ), time ( synagogues are not painted, but the oldest preserved one c. CE, Dura-Europos synagogue | Dura Europos, Syria was ), object ( in Africa the High God has no statue or painting, but lesser deities do ) or modality.

* 247 AD – Dura-Europos, a Roman outpost, is destroyed.

Syria's history is replete with civilizations, cities, and kingdoms, including Mari, Ugarit, Ramitha, Bara, Dura-Europos, Karak beaza, Qatora, Ain Dara, Basofan, Arwad, Shahba, Qanwat, Salkhad, Apamea, Hamoukar, Emar, and many others.

Daraa (, ), also Darʿā, Dara ’ a, Deraa, Dera, and Derʿā (" fortress ", compare Dura-Europos ), is a city in southwestern Syria, near the border with Jordan, with a population of 97, 969 as of the 2004 census.

According to rabbinic tradition, they were rectangles, with sharp corners, and indeed they are so depicted in the 3rd century paintings at the Dura-Europos Synagogue and in Christian art throughout the 1st millennium, drawing on Jewish traditions of iconography.

The Syrian city of Dura-Europos on the West bank of the Euphrates was an outpost town between the Roman and Parthian empires.

Although many Hellenised Jews seem, as at the Dura-Europos synagogue, to have had images of religious figures, the traditional Mosaic prohibition of " graven images " no doubt retained some effect, although never proclaimed by theologians.

* Dura-Europos is taken by the Romans.

* 244 – 245 – House-synagogue, Dura-Europos, Syria, is built.

* Dura-Europos is destroyed by the Persians.

Antigonus built a series of fortresses along the Balikh River while Seleucus built a few cities, including Dura-Europos and Nisibis.

This story is depicted on the frescoes of the Dura-Europos synagogue as the opposite to a depiction of the High Priest Aaron and the Temple of Solomon.

He contributed to many standard encyclopedias, published voluminously and in 1922, under stressful political conditions, conducted digs on the shore of the Euphrates at the previously unknown site of Dura-Europos ; he published his research there in 1926.

The Dura-Europos synagogue ( or " Dura Europas ", " Dura Europos " etc.

) is an ancient synagogue uncovered at Dura-Europos, Syria, in 1932.

Excavations at Dura-Europos 1928 – 1937.

I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.

There were two liquor saloons not very far from the church, one white, that is conducted for white people with a side entrance for Negroes ; ;

After looking about a bit, Wilson discovered beyond Black Bottom, across the river and far removed from the white city, a considerable tract of land, and it occurred to him that the church and the better Negro homes might gradually be moved to this plot.

They held the funeral the next morning from the crossroads church and buried the little box in the quiet family plot.

And all this too shall pass away: it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy -- yes, in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley, where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires.

It reported that he now devoted only some 6-1/2 hours per month to public preaching and from 20 to 25 hours per month to church activities.

`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.

The service is over, and a number of people come from the church with their spokesman Mityukh in the lead.

It draws young people into the circle of those who continue the life of the church from generation to generation.

Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality.

they can lose higher- and lower-status members from the church without collapsing, but they need adequate recruits for the core stratum in order to preserve economic integration.

There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world.

By analogy, the church also has been regarded as entirely independent of the `` world '' in the sense of requiring nothing from it in order to be the church.

The new members justifiably expect some things from their church family:

I did my shopping, had my dentist appointment, and from there I went to the women's lunch at our parish church where we discussed plans for the annual Christmas bazaar, so that dusk was beginning to gather when I drove home in the late afternoon.

When I came back from church at noon Mrs. Thaxter was turning into the Salter driveway.

Being a woman though, she would take only what she needed from church.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

After the American Revolution, the parishes in the newly independent country found it necessary to break formally from a church whose Supreme Governor was ( and remains ) the British monarch.

There he also received instruction in piano and counterpoint from professor Gustav Jacobsthal, and associated closely with Ernest Munch ( the brother of his former teacher ), organist of St William church, who was also a passionate admirer of J. S.

* 1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.

:" for a bad custom has prevailed amongst the clergy, of appointing the most powerful people of a parish stewards, or, rather, patrons, of their churches ; who, in process of time, from a desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all the lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars, with their tenths and oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relations in the church.