Older Than deck / Buildings and landmarks
St. Peter’s Basilica
Construction began
1506
It took 120 years to finish; the new church was consecrated in 1626.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.
Wikidata P571: 1506Q12512, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19
“in Vaticano Den nåværende Peterskirken er oppført under renessansen og barokken . Pave Julius 2 la ned grunnsteinen 18. april 1506. Kirken ble bygget over graven til apostelen Peter og skulle erstatte Den gamle St.”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19“mod øst. Kirken blev indviet i 326. Den nye Peterskirke Pave Julius 2. lod den oldkristne kirke nedrive og igangsatte i 1506 byggeriet af en centralkirke med græsk korsplan, tegnet af Bramante og assisteret af”Lex (Den Store Danske) (in Danish): source, retrieved 2026-10-19
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