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- 425
- Construction begins on the church of Santa Sabina atop the Aventine Hill in Rome, on the site of the Temple of Juno Regina (whose columns are reused in the church). The church is an expansion of a Roman house-church owned by a woman named Sabina. The new
- 475
- The first baptistery of Florence is constructed in the 5th or early 6th century next to the ancient cathedral. It is smaller than the present baptistery but similar in form and in the same location.
- 710
- The first version of St. Maria im Kapitol is constructed in Cologne on the site of a temple dedicated to the Capitoline Triad. Sponsored by Plektrudis (d. 717), it no longer survives but seems to have been a long hall church with rectangular foundations,
- 8 Dec 806
- Consecration of the Basilica of St. Zeno in Verona, built on the site of a smaller 5th-century church. The larger basilica was needed to accommodate pilgrims and serve a new Benedictine monastery founded by King Pepin.
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