The houses of worship have played an important role in the 
lives of peoples from early periods in history until the present 
time. They were among the most facilities that received clear 
attention, whether in their plans, architecture or decorations, and 
among those religious installations were churches, but churches 
as places of worship did not know with the emergence of 
Christianity, but rather It became known after the recognition of 
the Christian religion, that is, after about four centuries, as a 
result of the persecution of Christians by the Romans, as 
Christians in that early period used to perform their prayers and 
rituals in secret and out of sight in cemeteries and underground 
vaults (Syndicus, 1962, p.39), as well as in Temples, but with 
the recognition of Christianity as the official state religion in 
392 AD (Schaff, 1891, p.67), Christians began to establish 
churches as places of worship based on some well-known plans 
in ancient architecture, as is the case with the layout of the 
Roman basilicas that Christians borrowed in the planning of 
their churches Which was known in the basilica style (Grabar, 
1967, 311), and Egypt was one of the first areas in which 
churches were established, and the Coptic Church is considered 
one of the oldest churches as it dates back to the era of the first 
apostles, despite the lack of Physical evidence that you refer to 
that date (Shiha, 1977, p. 13). But when Egypt followed the 
Byzantine Church, some Byzantine elements were added to the 
church, such as domes and columns.