From the domus ecclesiae
Photo from Borgo Marano by @giuseppebaldassarri
From the domus ecclesiae to the Christian basilica (up to the Baroque style)
There is little information on the buildings where the first Christians gathered to remember and celebrate the Eucharist, it seems likely that initially the sacred rites were held in the environments in which they lived. These private houses, called ecclesiae domesticae, were the first places of Christian worship.
As early as the third century, the ecclesia domestica was transformed into a domus ecclesiae: an environment intended for liturgical use with various functions. The best known and best preserved of the earliest religious buildings is that of Dura Europos, a small city in Syria, near the Euphrates. The building, built in 232, as evidenced by a graffiti, has the shape of a Roman house with a central courtyard; it has two floors, with the upper floor intended for housing and the lower one for Christian worship, with a worship hall and a baptistery.
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