The discovery is renewing attention on a pivotal era when Christianity moved from its predominantly Jewish and biblical setting toward the increasingly Roman institutional Church. Archaeologists uncovered a column base, walls, and sections of pavement belonging to the church during continuing excavations at the site. At Nicaea, however, church leaders moved toward establishing a unified Christian observance of the resurrection independent of the Jewish calculation of Passover. The faith that began in Jerusalem—with a Jewish Messiah, Jewish apostles, Jewish Scriptures, Biblical feasts and thousands of Jewish believers—was increasingly being interpreted through the religious and political culture of the Roman Empire. Nicaea did not literally erase Christianity’s Jewish foundations; such a thing would have been impossible.