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Old St. Peter's Basilica

St. Peter's Basilica
Basilica Sancti Petri (Latin)
19th-century drawing of St. Peter's Basilica as it is thought to have looked around 1450. The Vatican obelisk is on the left, still standing on the spot where it was erected on the orders of the Emperor Caligula in 37 AD.
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41°54′8″N 12°27′12″E / 41.90222°N 12.45333°E / 41.90222; 12.45333
LocationRome
CountryPapal States
DenominationCatholic Church
History
StatusMajor basilica
Consecratedc. 360[citation needed]
Architecture
StyleEarly Christian
GroundbreakingBetween 326 (326) and 333
Completedc. 360
Demolishedc. 1505
Administration
DioceseDiocese of Rome
Fresco showing cutaway view of Constantine's St. Peter's Basilica as it looked in the 4th century

Old St. Peter's Basilica was the church buildings that stood, from the 4th to 16th centuries, where St. Peter's Basilica stands today in Vatican City. Construction of the basilica, built over the historical site of the Circus of Nero, began during the reign of Roman Emperor Constantine I. The name "old St. Peter's Basilica" has been used since the construction of the current basilica to distinguish the two buildings.[1]

An early interpretation of the relative locations of the Circus of Nero, and the old and current Basilicas of St. Peter
Maarten van Heemskerck – Santa Maria della Febbre, Vatican obelisk, Saint Peter's Basilica in construction (1532)
A map, c. 1590, by Tiberio Alfarano of the interior of Old Saint Peter's, noting the locations of the original chapels and tombs[2]
Fontana della Pigna (1st century AD), which stood in the courtyard of the Old St. Peter's Basilica during the Middle Ages and then moved again, in 1608, to a vast niche in the wall of the Vatican facing the Cortile della Pigna, located in Vatican City, in Rome, Italy
  1. ^ Boorsch, Suzanne (Winter 1982–1983). "The Building of the Vatican: The Papacy and Architecture". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 40 (3): 4–8.
  2. ^ Reardon, 2004. p. 274

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