I'm making researches on a few underground places of worship in Italy, so it would be of a great help if I could compare with similar places in Europe.
Perhaps, it is too basic, and in spanish! but...
Alcántara, Manuel, Iglesias europeas en catacumbas, Editorial Cultural y Espiritual Popular, Valencia, 1991. ISBN 13: 978-84-7050-285-9
perhaps double check on the churches near Paris catacombs as well? Would also check texts on Lalibela in Ethiopia and all texts that deal with medieval Cappadocia - not in Europe though ...
Hi. In addition to the Medivial ones in Cappadocia as Jelena Bogdanovic suggested you may want to check also those were in Antakya and Tur Abdin region in Turkey.
There are a couple of underground churches in Famagusta. Mogabgan and jeffery mentioned about them. Also on the carmel mountain.
La Cueva de la Camareta (Agramón, Hellín-Albacete), seems another spanish site that may be of interest (published in Antigüedad y Cristianismo, X (1997)
For the general context, see
http://turismocamposdehellin.com/es/patrimonio-e-historia/eremitorio-visigotico-de-la-camareta
many temples of Mithras are underground. They represent a cave and sometimes are actually in caves. For good surviving underground examples, try the mithraeum of the circus Maximus in Rome, the mithraeum of Santa Prisca, the mithraeum of San Clemente, the mithraeum of San Stefano Rotondo, etc, all in Rome, one or two of the mithraea in Ostia, and others scattered throughout the Roman Empire. A good book – sorry, useful is the better adjective – is still Vermaseren's Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum religionis Mithriacae. for Mithras in Ostia you might try www.ostia-antica.org.
A temple built before the pyramids
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum: 3600-3000 BC
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