Baptistery - Famous Baptisteries

Famous Baptisteries

Famous Italian baptistries include:

• The Lateran Baptistery, Rome,the most significant and architecturally most influential baptistry in the Christian West, founded by Pope Sixtus III;
• The Baptistry of San Giovanni in Forte, Ravenna;
• The Baptistry of Parma;
• The Tuscan Romanesque Battistero di San Giovanni, associated with Santa Maria del Fiore, the duomo of Florence, rebuilt between 1059 and 1150; it contains Ghiberti's "Doors of Paradise";
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• The circular domed Baptistry of St. John clad in white marble in the Piazza del Duomo, Pisa, built in stages from 1150 and combining Romanesque with Gothic.
• The Christian baptistery of Albenga, dating to the 5th century.
• Others are found at Ascoli Piceno, Pistoia and Padua.

Famous French baptistries include:

• The Baptistry of Fréjus Cathedral;
• The Baptistry of Aix Cathedral in Aix-en-Provence;
• The Baptistry of Poitiers, reputedly the oldest Christian building in France.
• The Baptistery of Leurent

Byzantine baptisteries of the Holy Land: Emmaus Nicopolis