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The church building, which was based on the room, in which Jesus ate the Last Supper with the Twelve, was developed according to it's epochal and regional situations. The infant church did not have it's own building. Because they needed not to have it and also did not interest in having it. For the infant church was not separated from Judaism, so the temple of Jerusalem was also their own temple. At that time they used also synagogue of Jews as their own outreach place. But they built in groups and celebrated Communion in their homes. The temple of Jerusalem, that they thought of their own temple, influenced their own church building as a house of God and the synagogue of Jews as a place of the liturgy celebration for them. After the infant church was separated from Judaism, they needed their own liturgy and liturgy room. They used the house, in that they celebrated Communion, as a church; this became a house church. In the time of persecution they used catacomb to celebrate the liturgy, especially the place for funeral and memorial liturgy room. The liturgy room in the house church was remodelled according to their own liturgy and the liturgy room by catacomb had the form of their common liturgy room. Before Constantine the great they built also their own church building according to their own liturgy. Few church buildings of that time remained. The most of them were many times repaired, so that we cannot see original form from them. Before the epoch of Constantine the Great there were several attempts to build the room structure for their liturgy. We can say, the basilica of Constantine the Great is a fruit of them, because it was surely influenced from the church buildings, which were built before it. In this paper, the liturgy rooms of the infant church before Constantine the Great will be researched, in oder to find the basic construction for the church building today.