Domus Ecclesiae

Examples of Domus Ecclesiae in the following topics:

• Dura-Europos

  • House churches were known as domus ecclesiae, Greek for house and assembly.
  • Domus ecclesiae emerged in third century Rome and are closely tied to domestic Roman architecture of this period, specifically to the peristyle house in which the rooms were arranged around a central courtyard.

• Early Christian Art

  • The house church in general was known as the domus ecclesiae, Latin for house and assembly.
  • Domi ecclesiae emerged in third-century Rome and are closely tied to domestic Roman architecture of this period, specifically to the peristyle house in which the rooms were arranged around a central courtyard.

• The Ecclesia

  • Ecclesias are different from churches because they typically must compete with other religious voices in a community.
  • A slight modification of the church type is that of ecclesia.
  • Ecclesias are also typically not the sole religious body in a particular societal space.
  • Because of this, it is considered an ecclesia.
  • In this way, certain ecclesia fail to meet the requirements for a church.

• Fourth Declension

  • Domus, house, is declined according to the Fourth Declension, but has also the following forms of the Second:—
  • The following nouns in -us are Feminine: acus, needle; domus, house; manus, hand; porticus, colonnade; tribus, tribe; Īdūs (Plural), Ides; also names of trees (§ 15, 2).

• Architecture at Pompeii

  • To facilitate this dual functionality, the domus had a distinct set of rooms that could be used as either public or private spaces.
  • While no modern domus adheres to the standard model of a domus, many Roman houses, both small and large, have nearly all of these different rooms.
  • Each domus throughout Pompeii represents the various ways the standard components of a domus were used to create unique floor plans that showcase the status and wealth of the owner.
  • This domus has two atria, each with its own fauces, although with two peristyles of different sizes.
  • The House of the Tragic Poet was small but maintained the public-private access characteristic of the traditional domus.

• The Julio-Claudians

  • This land, located on the hills east of the Forum Romanum, became home to his new palatial structure known as the Domus Aurea, or the Golden House.
  • Nero's architects and engineers, Severus and Celer, designed the Domus Aurea and demonstrated some of the unique architectural shapes made possible through concrete construction.

• Architecture of the Early Roman Empire

  • This land, located on the hills east of the Forum Romanum, became home to his new palatial structure known as the Domus Aurea, or the Golden House.
  • Nero's architects and engineers, Severus and Celer, designed the Domus Aurea and demonstrated some of the unique architectural shapes made possible through concrete construction.
  • Vespasian transformed land from Nero's Domus Aurea into public buildings for leisure and entertainment, such as the Baths of Titus and the Flavian Amphitheatre .

• The Church-Sect Typology

  • A slight modification of the church type is that of ecclesia.
  • Ecclesias include the above characteristics of churches with the exception that they are generally less successful at garnering absolute adherence among all of the members of the society and are not the sole religious body.

• Cult

  • Becker created four categories by splitting church into "ecclesia" and "denomination", and sect into "sect" and "cult."

• The Justinian Code

  • The provisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis also influenced the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church: it was said that ecclesia vivit lege romana — the church lives by Roman law.