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What (who) is Baptistry - definition
SEPARATE BUILDINGS OR PARTS OF BUILDINGS CONTAINING A FONT FOR THE BAPTISMAL RITE
Baptistry; Baptisteries; Baptistries
![The 5th century baptistery of [[Albenga]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Albenga-IMG 0352.JPG?width=200 "The 5th century baptistery of [[Albenga]]")
![Baptistry, [[Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania)]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Baptistry, Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania).jpg?width=200 "Baptistry, [[Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania)]]")
![Baptistery in the [[Basilica of St. John]] in [[Ephesus]], Turkey](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Basilica of St. John in Ephesus 06.jpg?width=200 "Baptistery in the [[Basilica of St. John]] in [[Ephesus]], Turkey")
![St. Giovanni Baptistery in Florence]], Italy](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Firenze.Baptistry06.JPG?width=200 "St. Giovanni Baptistery in Florence]], Italy")
![Žiča Monastery]] near [[Kraljevo]], [[Serbia]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Manastir Žiča (by Pudelek) 01.JPG?width=200 "Žiča Monastery]] near [[Kraljevo]], [[Serbia]]")
![The [[Merovingian]] [[Baptistère Saint-Jean]], [[Poitiers]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Poitiers - Baptistère Saint-Jean 4.jpg?width=200 "The [[Merovingian]] [[Baptistère Saint-Jean]], [[Poitiers]]")
![The [[Lateran Baptistery]], Rome, 440](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rom, San Giovanni in Laterano, Baptisterium, Außenansicht 2.jpg?width=200 "The [[Lateran Baptistery]], Rome, 440")
Baptistry
·noun A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services.
II. Baptistry ·noun In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near.
Baptistries
·pl of Baptistry.
baptistery
(also baptistry)
¦ noun (plural baptisteries or baptistries) the part of a church used for baptism.
?(in a Baptist chapel) a sunken receptacle used for baptism by total immersion.
Wikipedia
Baptistery
In Christian architecture the baptistery or baptistry (Old French baptisterie; Latin baptisterium; Greek βαπτιστήριον, 'bathing-place, baptistery', from βαπτίζειν, baptízein, 'to baptize') is the separate centrally planned structure surrounding the baptismal font. The baptistery may be incorporated within the body of a church or cathedral, and provided with an altar as a chapel. In the early Church, the catechumens were instructed and the sacrament of baptism was administered in the baptistery.
Examples of use of Baptistry
1. It is thought to have been part of a monastery founded by one of Britains ancient rulers and may have been used as a baptistry, for the remains of martyrs or as a royal mauso– leum.
2. Ugolini excavated most of the city as it is seen today, including a Greek theater, a temple to the god Aesclepious, and a large 5th–century baptistry with a tile mosaic floor.