Christianity
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Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. The Gospels state that Jesus is the Son of God and rose from the dead after his crucifixion, whose com
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, a holy place of Christianity
A folio from Papyrus 46, an early-3rd-century collection of Pauline epistles
The 7th-century Khor Virap monastery in the shadow of Mount Ararat; Armenia was the first state to adopt Christianity as the state religion in the early 4th century AD.
An example of Byzantine pictorial art, the Deësis mosaic at the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
History of Christianity
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The history of Christianity begins with Jesus, an itinerant Jewish preacher and teacher, who was crucified in Jerusalem c. AD 30–33. His followers proclaimed that he was the incarnation of God and had
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1495) in the Santa Maria delle Grazie Church in Milan, Italy, depicts the final meal before Jesus' crucifixion and death.
Christ Crucified, by Diego Velázquez c. 1632, depicting the crucifixion of Jesus
Half-length portrait of a virgin consecrated to God, praying with an orante prayer position, from the book Die Malereien der Katakomben Roms, plate 80
The Trinity by Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev, early 15th century.