116 This scroll contains the oldest reference to Daniel, only as an abbreviated text: a prayer of Daniel at ( 9: 4b-19 ).

View of the prayer hall of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ) considered as the oldest place of worship in the Western Islamic World, it is located in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia.

It is not known when Yiddish came to be written down, but the oldest surviving literary document in Yiddish is a blessing in the Worms mahzor, a Hebrew prayer book from 1272 ( with a scalable image online at the indicated reference ; described extensively in Frakes, 2004 and Baumgarten / Frakes, 2005 ):

Medina is home to the three oldest mosques in Islam, namely Al-Masjid an-Nabawi ( The Prophet's Mosque ), Masjid Quba ' or Quba Mosque ( the first mosque in Islam's history ), and Masjid al-Qiblatain ( The Mosque of the Two Qiblahs-the mosque where the direction of Muslim prayer, or qiblah, was switched from Jerusalem to Mecca ).

The oldest extant manuscripts of the Masoretic Text date from approximately the 9th century CE, and the Aleppo Codex ( once the oldest complete copy of the Masoretic Text, but now missing its Torah section ) dates from the 10th century. The Nash Papyrus ( 2nd century BCE ) contains a portion of a pre-Masoretic Text, specifically the Ten Commandments and the Shema Yisrael prayer.

Even in the oldest times the chief qualifications demanded of the hazzan, in addition to knowledge of Biblical and liturgical literature as well as the prayer motifs ( known as " steiger "), were a pleasant voice and an artistic delivery ; for the sake of these, many faults were willingly overlooked.

Picture showing the minbar of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan ( Mosque of Uqba ); this pulpit, the oldest in existence, is still in its place of origin ( in the prayer hall of the mosque ) and it is protected by a glass panel in order to preserve this precious preaching chair, in Kairouan, Tunisia.

Following a 1991 archaeological dig in Shuafat by Alexander Onn and Tzvi Greenhut, a room dating to the 2nd century BC was identified as a prayer room or synagogue, making one of the oldest ever found.

Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya ( الصحيفة السجادية ) is said to be the oldest prayer manual in Islamic sources and one of the most seminal works of Islamic spirituality of the early period.

It is one of the oldest temples in South Africa and still caters for prayer & wedding ceremonies.

Vatican Croatian Prayer Book is the oldest Croatian vernacular prayer book and the finest example of early štokavian vernacular literary idiom.

The canonical Book of Ezra and Book of Nehemiah are the oldest sources for the activity of Ezra, whereas many of the other books ascribed to Ezra ( First Esdras, 3-6 Ezra ) are later literary works dependent on the canonical books of Ezra and Nehemiah.

According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.

In translating the 39 books of the Hebrew Bible, Jerome was relatively free in rendering their text into Latin, but it is possible to determine that the oldest surviving complete manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, which date from nearly 600 years after Jerome, nevertheless transmit a consonantal Hebrew text very close to that used by Jerome.

* Significant to the history of agriculture, the Chinese author Jia Sixia wrote the treatise Qi Min Yao Shu in 535, and although it quotes 160 previous Chinese agronomy books, it is the oldest existent Chinese agriculture treatise.

* Significant to the history of agriculture, Chinese author Jia Sixia writes the treatise " Chimin Yaoshu " in this year, and although it quotes 160 previous Chinese agronomy books, it is the oldest existent Chinese agriculture treatise.

* The Nihon Shoki ( 日本書紀 ), one of the oldest history books in Japan, is completed.

* Merton College, Oxford, is first recorded as having a collection of books, making its Library the world's oldest in continuous daily use.

A leaf from the Flowery Triod ( Triod ' cvetnaja ) from about 1491, one of the oldest printed Byzantine-Slavonic books, National Library of Poland.

There is general consensus that books two to six form the oldest portion of the epic while the first book Bala Kanda and the last the Uttara Kanda are later additions.

Cyril and Methodius National Library houses the largest national collection of books and documents ( 1, 714, 211 books and some 6 million other documents ) and is Bulgaria's oldest cultural institute.

* Anguttara Nikaya, one of the five oldest books in Buddhist literature

To sum up: the third and fourth books appear in the oldest tradition as a single book, and they comprise pieces by different authors in different styles, none of which can be assigned to Tibullus with any certainty.

It was composed during the late Cankam period and is the oldest and most revered among the secular Tamil books of Law.

The Inn can claim the oldest records-its " black books " documenting the minutes of the governing Council go back to 1422, and the earliest entries show that the Inn was at that point an organised and disciplined body.

* February 17 – Australia's Susie O ' Neill snapped the oldest world record in the books, clocking 2: 05. 37 in the women's 200m butterfly ( short course ) at a World Cup meet in Malmö, Sweden.

* 1276-Merton College, Oxford, is first recorded as having a collection of books, making its Library the world's oldest in continuous daily use.

As Sweden's oldest national symbols they are even depicted on the covers of books about the Swedish national identity.

The oldest libraries of Montenegro, where the oldest books and documentation of great value are preserved, are located at Cetinje.

The oldest complete copy of the New Testament, the Codex Sinaiticus, which includes two other books not now included in the accepted NT canon, dates to the 4th century.

The passages in which Bath-sheba is mentioned are II Samuel 11: 2-12: 24, and I Kings 1, 2 .— both of which are parts of the oldest stratum of the books of Samuel and Kings.

The oldest rocks in the ACT date from the Ordovician around 480 million years ago.

They argue that the oldest copies of this text family are likely to have been lost or destroyed over time with use, and therefore extant manuscripts cannot accurately date a text family.

The oldest surviving manuscripts of the Athanasian Creed date from the late 8th century.

Its oldest layer, called the Yahwist, may date from the time of Solomon, although many scholars now believe that it should be dated considerably later.

The text's true authorship and date of composition or compilation are still debated, although the oldest excavated text dates back to the late 4th century BC.

The oldest findings of human presence here date back to the Stone Age.

The oldest parts of the cathedral of Helsingør date back to the 13th century and tell us that the fishermen's village, as Helsingør was then, was a town of a certain importance.

The oldest written records of the Finnic languages of Estonia date from the 13th century.

The oldest known fossils assigned to Equidae date from the early Eocene, 54 million years ago.

The oldest football clubs date back to the early 19th century.

The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.

The oldest documents in Gothic date back to the 4th century.

The consensus is that " the Iliad and the Odyssey date from around the 8th century BC, the Iliad being composed before the Odyssey, perhaps by some decades ," i. e. earlier than Hesiod, the Iliad being the oldest work of Western literature.

They date back 1. 83 million years, the oldest evidence of hominid habitation in Southeast Asia ..

The oldest Babylonian texts on medicine date back to the Old Babylonian period in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC.

The oldest rocks date back only to the early Tertiary Era, some 60 million years ago.

The Hurrian song, found on clay tablets that date back to approximately 1400 BC, is the oldest surviving notated work of music.

Its oldest known settlements date back approximately 9, 000 years.

It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.

The oldest surviving Sanskrit text would date to the Kushan Period ( 200 CE ).

Most meteorites date from the oldest times in the solar system and are by far the oldest material available on our planet.

The oldest Babylonian texts on medicine date back to the Old Babylonian period in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC.

The oldest one known, and the only one from the Middle Ages, is the Nyköping staff, believed to date from the 13th century.