San Clemente al Laterano

Saint Clement
Courtyard of the Basilica of Saint Clement
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41°53′22″N 12°29′51″E / 41.88944°N 12.49750°E / 41.88944; 12.49750
LocationRome
CountryItaly
DenominationCatholic Church
TraditionLatin Church
Religious orderDominicans
Websitewww.basilicasanclemente.com
History
StatusBasilica,
titular church,
Irish national church
DedicationPope Clement I
Architecture
Architectural typeChurch
StylePaleochristian, Romanesque
Groundbreaking1108
Completed1123
Specifications
Length45 metres (148 ft)
Width25 metres (82 ft)
Nave width13 metres (43 ft)

The Basilica of Saint Clement (Italian: Basilica di San Clemente al Laterano) is a Latin Catholic minor basilica dedicated to Pope Clement I located in Rome, Italy. Archaeologically speaking, the structure is a three-tiered complex of buildings: (1) the present basilica built just before the year 1100 during the height of the Middle Ages; (2) beneath the present basilica is a 4th-century basilica that had been converted out of the home of a Roman nobleman, part of which had in the 1st century briefly served as an early church, and the basement of which had in the 2nd century briefly served as a mithraeum; (3) the home of the Roman nobleman had been built on the foundations of republican era villa and warehouse that had been destroyed in the Great Fire of AD 64.