A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe.
 The name derives from the buildings' structure of post and lintel construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing ore-pine posts are called "stafr" in Old Norse ("stav" in modern Norwegian).
 Two related church building types also named for their structural elements, the post church and palisade church, are often also called 'stave churches'.
The Church of Transfiguration in Ramallah was inaugurated in 1852.
 The Basilica is of Byzantine style.
 The church contains sacred utensils and old Icons, some of which date back to 1830 and were transferred to the church after the destruction of small churches in Ramallah as a result of persecution and several wars.
Franklin Regular Baptist Church, also known simply as Franklin Baptist Church, is a historic church building located southeast of Seymour in rural Appanoose County, Iowa, United States.
 The white frame church is associated with the no longer extant village of Livingston and its founder Livingston Parker.
 Parker was an Upstate New York native who relocated to Ohio before homesteading in Appanoose County in 1854.
 The Baptist Society was formed in Franklin Township on April 12, 1862 in the home of Peter Angle.
 Livingston Parker served as moderator for most of the community's Covenant Meetings before he was ordained and called as a circuit preacher for churches in Exline, Iowa, St. John, Missouri, and Livingston.
 The congregation in Livingston met in member homes until it was able to raise the money to complete the church building in 1881.
 The church originally faced a road, but the county built 135th Avenue behind the church in the 1950s.
 The congregation remained in existence until 1967.
 The church building began to deteriorate until 1999 when the local cemetery association began to look after it.
 It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
Church of Sts.
 Peter and Paul—Catholic is a historic church building on State Street in Gilman, Minnesota, United States.
 It was built in 1930 to serve a Polish-American congregation and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
 The first church was a log structure in 1872.
 It was known as the church of St. Wenselaus.
 Then a new church was built in the 1880s and was a frame structure known as St. Casimir's Church.
 The old log church was converted into classrooms.
 A new school building was built in 1909 and is present today.
 St. Casimir's church was destroyed by fire in 1891.
 A new and larger frame building was constructed for the new church.
 This church building stood north of the present brick building.
 Fr.
 Vincent Wotzka as pastor had a brick rectory built in 1924.
 Sometime during these early years, the name of the parish was changed to SS.
 Peter and Paul.
 No reason has been found for the change.
A basilica is a type of building, usually a Christian church, that is typically rectangular with a central nave and aisles, usually with a slightly raised platform and an apse at one or both ends.
 In Europe and the Americas it is the most common architectural style for churches though this building plan has become less dominant in new buildings since the later 20th century.
 Today the term "basilica" is often used to refer to any large, ornate church building, especially Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, even if it does not strictly follow this style.
Church building in Norway began when Christianity was established there around the year 1000.
 The first buildings may have been post churches erected in the 10th or 11th century, but evidence is inconclusive.
 For instance under Urnes stave church and Lom Stave Church there are traces of older post churches.
 Post churches were later replaced by the more durable stave churches.
 About 1,300 churches were built during the 12th and 13th centuries in what was Norway's first building boom.
 A total of about 3,000 churches have been built in Norway, although nearly half of them have perished.
 From 1620 systematic records and accounts were kept although sources prior to 1620 are fragmented.
 Evidence about early and medieval churches is partly archaeological.
 The "long church" is the most common type of church in Norway.
 There are about 1620 buildings recognized as churches affiliated with the Church of Norway.
 In addition there is a number gospel halls belonging to the lay movement affiliated with the Church of Norway (not regarded as church buildings) as well as churches belonging to other Christian bodies.
 Until the 20th century most churches were built from wood.
 220 buildings are protected by law, and an additional 765 are listed as valuable cultural heritage.
St. Anthony's Catholic Church is a parish in the Diocese of Davenport.
 The parish complex is located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States, at the corner of Fourth and Main Streets.
 It is the first church congregation organized in the city of Davenport and the second, after St. Raphael's Cathedral in Dubuque, Catholic congregation in the state of Iowa.
 The parish buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church Complex.
 The designation includes the church and the former school building, which is the parish's original church building and is the oldest standing church building in the state of Iowa.
 The designation also included the rectory, which was torn down in 2009.
 It is also listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1992 as St. Anthony's Church Square.
 The property has been known historically as Church Square.
Suncreek United Methodist Church is a United Methodist Church in Allen, Texas, part of the North Texas Conference of the UMC.
 In June of 1995, Rev. Burt Palmer was appointed to begin a new United Methodist Church in Allen.
 By September of that year, three families were gathering to worship at the parsonage.
 The group grew, and by the end of that year, Sunday morning worship moved to Green Elementary School.
 Then, on September 22, 1996, Suncreek was officially constituted as a United Methodist Church.
 In early 1999, the church began to build on property at Suncreek and McDermott Drives.
  This involved renovating a home that was on the site and adding additional rooms for a Sanctuary and classes.
  In September 1999, the church left Green Elementary and began meeting in the new buildings.
 Rev. Kathleen Baskin-Ball was appointed Senior Pastor of Suncreek in June 2001.
 The following May, the church gathered for a Sunday morning worship service under a large tent to kickoff a capital campaign that would purchase land, renovate the existing building, erect a new building and Sanctuary, and add parking.
 One year later, the church broke ground on this phase of its development.
 The new building was completed in April 2004 and consecrated by Bishop William B. Oden on May 23, 2004.
 In early 2007, Rev. Kathleen Baskin-Ball was diagnosed with cancer.
 Despite the challenges of her illness and treatment, she continued to lead, serve and love the congregation until her death on December 2, 2008.
 One of Kathleen’s favorite ministerial duties was performing baptisms.
  We desire to remember her with the beautiful Garden in our esplanade just south of the breezeway connecting the sanctuary with the children’s area.
 Rev. Dr. Thomas O. Palmer was appointed as Senior Pastor in June, 2009 and served until June, 2013.
  He now serves as Senior Pastor of Coppell United Methodist Church.
 Rev. Dr. Keith Payne Boone was appointed as Senior Pastor in June, 2013 and served until June, 2016.
 He now serves as Senior Pastor of University Park United Methodist Church in Dallas.
 Rev. Dr. Barry Hughes was appointed as Senior Pastor in June, 2016.
Woodside Community Church is a Baptist church located in Woodside, New York, in the borough of Queens.
 The church began in the 1870s as an effort of several men from different churches around the local areas.
 They had been concerned that there was no significant testimony of the Gospel message in Woodside, so they began a “Sabbath School”, eventually meeting over a carpenter’s shop near present-day P.S. 11.
 This “sabbath school” grew and was organized as a church in the 1880s.
 The church would congregate in a traditional church building located at the intersection of Woodside Avenue, Roosevelt Avenue (then Greenpoint Ave.), and 58th Street.
 The church building at that site was a traditional church structure with steep steps rising from sidewalk to the church’s front door.
 In 1887, the church officially incorporated with the State of New York, as “The First Baptist Church of Woodside, Long Island”.
 (Queens did not become its own county until 1889).
The Fitzalan Chapel is located within the eastern end of the church building constructed on the western grounds of Arundel Castle.
 This church building is one of the very few church buildings that is currently divided into two worship areas, one Catholic and one Anglican, with the western side of the church building occupied by the Anglican church of St Nicholas.
 The Catholic chapel, now the private mausoleum of the Dukes of Norfolk, is a Grade I listed building.

Question: Although has become less dominant in new buildings, what type of church building is The Church of Transfiguration in Ramallah?
Answer: basilica