This project project intends to test the analytical framework of Bernard Mulholland as presented in his 2014 work, The Early Byzantine Christian Church: an Archaeological Re-assessment of Forty-Seven Early Byzantine Basilical Church Excavations Primarily in Israel and Jordan, and their Historical and Liturgical Context.
Those churches are listed here.
- Mola di Monte Gelato
- Santa Cornelia
- Santuario di San Liberato
- PoreÄ
- Large Basilica at Nicropolis ad Istrum
- Small Basilica at Nicropolis ad Istrum
- Plovdiv
- Synagogue Church at Gerasa
- Church of Procopius at Gerasa
- Saint George Church at Gerasa
- Church of St John the Baptist at Gerasa
- Church of SS Cosmas and Damian
- Church of Bishop Genesius at Gerasa
- Church of SS Peter and Paul at Gerasa
- The Cathedral at Gerasa
- Church of St. Theodore at Gerasa
- Church of the Propylaea at Gerasa
- Byzantine Church – Petra
- Shavei Zion
- SS. Sergius & Bacchus at Nessana
- Kursi Church
- Khirbet ed-Deir monastery
- Central Church, Herodium
- Eastern Church, Herodium
- Horvat Berachot
- Horvat Beit Loya
- St. Stephen’s Horvat Be’er-Shema
- Ostracine Ancient City
- Coastal Basilica, Ostrakine
- Evron
- Monastery Church of Martyrius
- Khirbet el-Beiyudat
- Rehovot-in-the-Negev
- Elusa Cathedral
- Horvat Hesheq
- Khirbat al-Karak (Beit Yerah)
- Nahariyya church
- St. Mary’s or South Church
- Khirbat Beit Anun
- Tel Dor
- Khirbet el-Shubeika St. Sergius
- Kissufim
- South Church, El Ashmunein
- Old Church, Old Dongola, Sudan
- St. Anne’s Church Maresha
- Civic Complex Church, Pella
Links to pages for each church are forthcoming.
The Archaeology of Liturgy Project reflects research conducted at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem during the spring of 2023.