List of oldest known surviving buildings

Columns: Building | Location | First built | Use | Notes
Hōryū-ji | Nara , Japan | 670 AD | Temple | Oldest wooden building still standing | Pyramid of Djoser | Saqqara , Egypt | 2667-2648 BC | Tomb | Oldest large-scale cut stone construction | Luxor Temple | Luxor , Egypt | 1400 BC | Religious | The oldest standing building partly in use . There is an active mosque within the main structure , visible in the picture , that stands on the ancient pillars of the egyptian temple | Jokhang | Lhasa , China | c. 639 AD | Buddhist temple | Perhaps the world 's oldest timber frame building | Nanchan Temple | Wutai , China | 782 AD | Buddhist Temple | Its Great Buddha Hall is currently China 's oldest extant timber building | Ditherington Flax Mill | Shrewsbury , England | 1797 AD | Industrial | The oldest iron framed building in the world | Maison Carrée | France | 16 BC | Temple | The only completely preserved temple of the ancient world | Pantheon , Rome | Italy | 125 AD | Religious | Oldest standing building still in regular use | Aula Palatina | Germany | 306 AD | Palace basilica | Contains the largest extant hall from antiquity | Greensted Church | England | c. 1053 AD | Church | May be the oldest , extant wooden church in the world and the oldest , extant wooden building in Europe | Roykstovan in Kirkjubø | Faroe Islands | No clear date , middle of 11th century AD | Farmhouse | May be the oldest continuously inhabited wooden building in the world | Mundeshwari Temple | Bihar , India | conflicting accounts ; between 105-320 AD | Hindu Temple | May be the oldest surviving ( non rebuilt ) Hindu temple in the world

Example questions:
Under whose reign was this Buddhist temple constructed in this district at an altitude of 3,656 metres ? | What is the population of this city that has this large Ancient Egyptian temple complex built approximately 1400 BCE , making it the oldest of its kind ? | Who commissioned this palace , one of the oldest of its type , in this country with about 83 million inhabitants ? | How far is this city that has this oldest surviving 6-tier , 4-sided colossal stone building , located from Cairo ?

Answers:
King Songtsen Gampo | 506,535 | emperor Constantine I | 30 km