The Lateran Baptistery located next to St. John Lateran and the Lateran Palace in Rome, Italy. The brick exterior of San Giovanni in Fonte is entirely original Built by Constantine the Great in 315, the ancient structure is one of the oldest Christian buildings in Rome and the oldest baptistery in all of Christendom. The baptistery was restored under Pope Hadrian III 884-85 and also in the 12th century. A major redecoration of the interior in the 17th century accounts for the unfortunate loss of the ambulatory mosaics and the covering of most of the marble revetment. More recently, the baptistery was fully restored after damage by a car bombing in 1993.
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