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Place Christianity
Church of the Nativity
ܥܕܬܐ ܕܕܪܓܘܫܬܐ arc
Basilica in Bethlehem
- Dated from 327 CE
- Also called Church of the Holy Cradle, Basilica of the Nativity
Figures
Associated figures
Gods and people named with this place — as its founders, or in their own records.
What this means
Founders are named by this place's own record, and a founding is an attribution, often contested. The rest are read from the other end, computed from their records rather than this one. Being named with a place is not being documented there in any given year.
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Constantine the GreatNamed as founder Roman emperor from 306 to 337 and first to convert to Christianity (272–337)
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Helena AugustaNamed as founder saint, first wife of Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus, and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great (250-330)
Site history & evidence
What is documented here
Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.
| Evidence | On record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Site date | Dated from 327 CE On the timeline | A date for the site as recorded — not the start of worship, and not a floor on the tradition here. |
| Location | Recorded to the site On the atlas | A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent. |
| Dated activity | None recorded | A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Church of the Nativity, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
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under 1 km awayGrotto of the Nativity
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under 1 km awayBethlehem
city in the West Bank, Palestine -
under 1 km awayMosque of Omar
mosque in the Old City of Bethlehem, West Bank, State of Palestine -
2.0 km awayRachel's Tomb
Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem -
3.4 km awayMar Elias Monastery
in East Jerusalem -
5.9 km awayTalpiot Tomb
grave south of Jerusalem, Israel -
7.4 km awayMonastery of St. Theodosius
monastery in the West Bank, Palestine -
7.4 km awayRabbi Dr. I. Goldstein Synagogue
synagogue in Jerusalem, Israel
History
Recorded events
What Church of the Nativity’s own record names in its history, in the order of the dates on the statements.
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began. Each date is the one on the statement itself; an event with none is named after the line. It does not imply that these are all the events in its history, or that Wikidata ranks the events by importance.
- 2012 CE – 2019 CE List of World Heritage in Danger ↗ Has references
Also recorded, with no date on the statement
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
10 statements on this record
- 6 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 4 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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