Saint Clement | |
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![]() Courtyard of the Basilica of Saint Clement | |
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41°53′22″N 12°29′51″E / 41.88944°N 12.49750°E | |
Location | Rome |
Country | Italy |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Tradition | Latin Church |
Religious order | Dominicans |
Website | www |
History | |
Status | Basilica, titular church, Irish national church |
Dedication | Pope Clement I |
Architecture | |
Architectural type | Church |
Style | Paleochristian, Romanesque |
Groundbreaking | 1108 |
Completed | 1123 |
Specifications | |
Length | 45 metres (148 ft) |
Width | 25 metres (82 ft) |
Nave width | 13 metres (43 ft) |
The Basilica of Saint Clement (Italian: Basilica di San Clemente al Laterano) is a Latin Catholic minor basilica dedicated to Pope Clement I located in Rome, Italy. Archaeologically speaking, the structure is a three-tiered complex of buildings: (1) the present basilica built just before the year 1100 during the height of the Middle Ages; (2) beneath the present basilica is a 4th-century basilica that had been converted out of the home of a Roman nobleman, part of which had in the 1st century briefly served as an early church, and the basement of which had in the 2nd century briefly served as a mithraeum; (3) the home of the Roman nobleman had been built on the foundations of republican era villa and warehouse that had been destroyed in the Great Fire of AD 64.
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