San Clemente al Laterano

Saint Clement
San Clemente (Italian) Sancti Clementis (Latin)
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 / 41.88944; 12.49750
Location	Rome
Country	Italy
Denomination	Catholic Church
Tradition	Latin Church
Religious order	Dominicans
Website	www.basilicasanclemente.com
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.