Where is the oldest church in Africa?
So we are at St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox
Church. This is the oldest Coptic Orthodox Church in Africa, making it also the oldest
Christian church in Africa. This is where St. Mark started the Coptic Orthodox Church. It
is also the place where St. Mark was martyred.
The oldest christian church in Africa was established by St. Mark in Alexandria, Egypt around 43 AD.
The church in the video commemorates the site of the original which was built in a district known as Baucalis in the suburb of Rakotis in the city of Alexandria.
This is the same St. Mark as one of the authors of the four christian gospels of the New Testament (Matthew, MARK, Luke, John).
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