The tower which remains from the original Norman church and stands on the north side of the church ( the upper part is 15th century ) was, until the loss of its spire in 1699, 150 ft high.

Fires started by the Nika rioters consumed Constantine's basilica of St Sophia, the city's principal church, which lay to the north of the Augustaeum.

The three Greek Orthodox chapels of St. James the Just, St. John the Baptist and of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, south of the rotunda and on the west side of the front courtyard originally formed the baptistery complex of the Constantinean church, the southern most chapel being the vestibule, the middle chapel being the actual baptistery and the north chapel being the chamber in which the patriarch chrismated the newly baptized before leading them into the rotunda north of this complex.

When the Christian church split in 1054 between the East and Rome, the region of southern Albania retained its ties to Constantinople while the north reverted to the jurisdiction of Rome.

The church of St. John the Baptist in Sacrofano, a few miles north of Rome, claims to have his relics.

In 1868, Piula Theological College was established in Lufilufi on the north coast of Upolu island in Samoa and serves as the main headquarters of the Methodist church in the country.

St. John's Episcopal Church, just across Lafayette Square, north of the White House, and built in 1815 – 1816, is the church nearest to the White House, and its services have been attended at least once by nearly every president since James Madison ( 1809 – 1817 ).

North Parma serves the farming congregation to the north and the " Plain Parma " church serves the village congregation.

The north portal of the 11th century Urnes stave church has been interpreted as containing depictions of snakes and dragons that represent Ragnarök

Aubrey in Brief Lives describes his grave as " being in the north part next to the church at the east end .. 2 yards distant from the pillaster of the dore ".

The new church which is dedicated to " The Sacred Heart and St Peter the Apostle " sits to the north of the town centre on London Road.

* 1136: Suger begins rebuilding the abbey church at St Denis north of Paris, which is regarded as the first major Gothic building.

* Brian Boru makes a second expedition to the north to take hostages from the northern states: during this expeidion, he visited Armagh, making an offering of twenty ounces of gold to the church and confirming to the apostolic see of Saint Patrick, ecclesiastical supremacy over the whole of Ireland ( as recorded in the Book of Armagh ).

In the north west of England, church and chapel parades called Whit Walks take place at Whitsun ( sometimes on Whit Friday, the Friday after Whitsun ).

A number of new public buildings were also added including ; the Arsenal ( 1610 – 19 ), the town hall with its north staircase tower ( 1632 – 34 ) and its eastern facade ( Archive tower 1624, completed 1703-14 ), the Jesuit church ( 1680 – 89 ), the new Ambassadorenhof ( 1717 – 24 ), the Holy Spirit Hospital in a suburb ( 1735 – 1800 ) and the new classicist Church of St. Ursus ( 1763 – 90 ).

Llandaff (; church + Taf ) is a district in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales, having been incorporated into the city in 1922.

In 1984, a modern church complex was constructed just north and west of the Mission compound and is now known as Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano.

From the 15th century ungureni, that is Romanians from Transylvania began to populate the area north of the marketplace where they would erect an Orthodox church after 1500.

The lawyers ' quarter is still in use, just to the north of the church.

They indicate that the original church consisted of a nave, possibly with a narthex, and side-chapels to the north and south.

It shows the same general principles of arrangement common to all Benedictine monasteries, although, unusually, the cloister and monastic buildings were to the north, rather than the south of the church.

Another early example would be a depiction of eyeglasses found north of the Alps in an altarpiece of the church of Bad Wildungen, Germany, in 1403.

Sixty miles north of New York City where the wooded hills of Dutchess County meet the broad sweep of the Hudson River there is a new home development called `` Oakwood Heights ''.

A precision transit is set up so that it is aligned with respect to true north.

Although this technique is simple and satisfactory, one practical difficulty does exist: the direction of true north must be known for each launch point.

However, this difficulty is not too serious if it is realized that a surveying team can establish a true north base line with a few days' work.

Forty miles farther north is Mount Moosilauke, Dartmouth's own mountain.

More than 10 companies maintain facilities in Dallas and one large manufacturer is located to the north at Sherman.

Ontario's foliage is most vivid from about Sept. 23 to Oct. 10, with both Muskoka ( 100 miles north of Toronto ) and Haliburton ( 125 miles northwest of Toronto ) holding color cavalcades starting Sept. 23.

It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west.

The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.

It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.

It is a peninsula bound by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the north-east, the Armenian Highland to the east, Mesopotamia to the south-east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west.

As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.

In 2012, it is the parallel of latitude that runs north of the Equator.

The region north of this circle is known as the Arctic, and the zone just to the south is called the Northern Temperate Zone.

In contrast, the largest North American community north of the circle, Sisimiut ( Greenland ), has approximately 5, 000 inhabitants, while between Canada and the USA, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with circa 4, 000 inhabitants.

It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and the east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast.

In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus.

The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.

The Anatolian peninsula, also called Asia Minor, is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Sea of Marmara to the northwest, which separates Anatolia from Thrace in Europe.

He stated, " he Act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning in the territory of the United States north of the line therein is not warranted by the Constitution and is therefore void.