Erected on the site of pagan temples and three previous St. Sophias, the first of which was begun by Constantine, this fourth church was started by Justinian in 532 and completed twenty years later.

Amathus still flourished and produced a distinguished patriarch of Alexandria, St. John the Merciful, as late as 606-616, and a ruined Byzantine church marks the site ; but it declined and was already almost deserted when Richard Plantagenet won Cyprus by a victory there over Isaac Comnenus in 1191.

With the ecclesiastical parishes of St Fagan's ( Trecynon ) and Aberaman carved out of the ancient parish, Aberdare had 12 Anglican churches and one Roman Catholic church, built in 1866 in Monk Street near the site of a cell attached to Penrhys monastery, and at one time had over 50 Nonconformist chapels.

A town that only became notable in the 12th century when it became the site for the construction of Portugal's largest church.

Excavations near the site of a present day church and monastery, have revealed an early church with two empty tombs, believe to be that of St. Barnabas and Anthemios.

In 2003, Mitchell set up a web site on which he posted most all of the publications of Victor T. Houteff, Ben and Lois Roden, and his own new studies, including a detailed presentation of what he calls The Warfare of Vernon Howell ( a. k. a. David Koresh ) and others against the Branch Davidian Seventh Day Adventists, in which he gives a detailed and documented overview of the controversy regarding the church and its adversaries.

Nevertheless, the church flourished in Kirtland as Smith published new revelations and the church built the Kirtland Temple as the site of what they viewed as a new Pentecost.

" In 1537, the Bishop of Calahorra ordered the tomb destroyed and the remains transferred to an unconsecrated site outside the church.

The church has been a paramount – and for many Christians the most important – pilgrimage destination since at least the 4th century, as the purported site of the resurrection of Jesus.

Emperor Constantine I ordered in about 325 / 326 that the temple be demolished and the soil-which had provided a flat surface for the temple-be removed, instructing Macarius of Jerusalem, the local Bishop, to build a church on the site.

Constantine directed his mother, Helena, to build churches upon sites which commemorated the life of Jesus Christ ; she was present in 326 at the construction of the church on the site, and involved herself in the excavations and construction.

Constantine's church was built as two connected churches over the two different holy sites, including a great basilica ( the Martyrium visited by Egeria in the 380s ), an enclosed colonnaded atrium ( the Triportico ) with the traditional site of Golgotha in one corner, and a rotunda, called the Anastasis (" Resurrection "), which contained the remains of a rock-cut room that Helena and Macarius identified as the burial site of Jesus.

" The rebuilt church site consisted of " a court open to the sky, with five small chapels attached to it.

The rebuilt church site was taken from the Fatimids ( who had recently taken it from the Abassids ) by the knights of the First Crusade on 15 July 1099.

The church became the seat of the first Latin Patriarchs, and was also the site of the kingdom's scriptorium.

The church was lost to Saladin, along with the rest of the city, in 1187, although the treaty established after the Third Crusade allowed for Christian pilgrims to visit the site.

On the south side of the altar via the ambulatory ( an aisle surrounding the end of the choir or chancel of a church ) is a stairway climbing to Calvary ( Golgotha ), traditionally regarded as the site of Jesus ' crucifixion and the most lavishly decorated part of the church.

" A third, proposed in 1895 by Eiríkr Magnússon, but since discredited, is that it derives from the Icelandic place name Oddi, site of the church and school where students, including Snorri Sturluson, were educated.

The work also describes traditional religious practices at the oak of Mamre as though they were still happening, while they are known to have been suppressed soon after 325, when a church was built on the site.

Henry IV restored the charter granted to Gibraltar in 1310 and took two additional measures: the lands previously belonging to Algeciras ( destroyed in 1369 ) were granted to Gibraltar ; and the status of collegiate church was solicited from the pope Pius II and granted to the parish church of Saint Mary the Crowned (), now the Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned, on the site of the old main Moorish Mosque.

Twenty feet below the street level in the excavation of the new motel to be constructed on this site, a black coal-like deposit has been encountered.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

The strategic site has been a prohibited zone in the twentieth century.

Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.

The precise archaeological site of the city of Akkad has not yet been found.

Though there was no Bronze Age city on the site, archaeology has detected human activity that is evident from the earliest Iron Age, circa 1100 BC.

The site of the ruins is within the borders of this village, though the expansion of the Limassol tourist area has threatened the ruins: it is speculated that some of the hotels are on top of the Amathus necropolis.

Archaeology has uncovered remains at the site dating to approximately 3000 BC.

Whilst Anah has thus retained its name for forty-two centuries the site is variously described.

Recently, Abandan has been the site of major labor activity as workers at the oil refineries in the city have staged walkouts and strikes to protest non-payment of wages and the political situation in the country.

A second temple has also been located at the archaeological site of Metropolis in what is now Western Turkey.

His home a few kilometers outside Banyuls, also the site of his final resting place, has been turned into a museum where a number of his works and sketches are displayed.

The site has a 90, 000-square foot heated indoor practice facility, Three outdoor NFL natural turf football fields that feature an immediate gravity drainage system, and a complete kitchen and dining facilities for team meals.

The state has been a frequent spring training site since 1946.

He also has a residence next to Canterbury Cathedral on the site of the medieval Archbishop's Palace.

It is thus the first site where the archaeology confirms the continuity of Mycenaean and Classical Greek religion, which has been inferred from the presence of the names of Classical Greek divinities on Linear B texts from Pylos and Knossos.

The description of the Uppsala temple is one of the most famous excerpts of the Gesta, however as no archaeological site has ever been found, one can wonder if Adam ’ s description is linked to reality.

The most representative site explored up to now is Knossos ( see Crete ) which has yielded not only the most various but the most continuous evidence from the Neolithic age to the twilight of classical civilization.

A map of Cyprus in the later Bronze Age ( such as is given by J. L. Myres and M. O. Richter in Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum ) shows more than 25 settlements in and about the Mesaorea district alone, of which one, that at Enkomi, near the site of Salamis, has yielded the richest Aegean treasure in precious metal found outside Mycenae.

It has been estimated that around 125, 000 pilgrims visit the site every day.

A cattle market has been held in Abergavenny on its current site since 1863.

A memorial plaque for the deceased has now been placed at the site.

The animation below shows two sunsets at a hypothetical site, one the day before the summer solstice and one at the summer solstice, which has a double sunset.

The atoll has long been a maritime hazard and is the site of numerous shipwrecks.

Burkina has been the site of several development success stories.