where did church steeples first originate?

Answer 1

Steeples generally cap bell or clock towers. Towers were not a part of Christian churches until about AD 600, when they were adapted from military watchtowers. At first they were fairly modest and entirely separate structures from churches. Over time, they were incorporated into the church building and capped with ever-more elaborate roofs until the steeple resulted.

A common myth claims that the steeple is based in earlier Pagan architecture. It is said that the Pagan steeple was originally constructed to symbolize the male phallus. This completely incorrect idea is rooted in anti-Roman Catholic author Alexander Hislop's general attempt to dismiss Catholicism as paganism in disguise, as described in his 1858 book " The Two Babylons, or The Papal Worship Proved to Be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife." While Hislop did not claim steeples are pagan in origin, his follower Ralph Woodrow did in his own 1966 book "Babylon Mystery Religion." Woodrow has since recanted his claims, which had no evidence to support them anyway.

Answer 2

The church steeples first originate with Nebuchadnezzar. The church late adopted it on their churches. Daniel 3: 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose
height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he
set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
In the following four chapters, we can see an example of how it will
be in the last days of the gentiles. In response to the revelation,
Nebuchadnezzar orders the building of an image entirely of gold.
This is image is not a image of Nebuchadnezzar but is a image of what produces life. It has only two dimensions, only a circle has two dimensions. It is six cubits by 60 cubits. Six times he sets it between verse one and verse 8. At least six kinds of music is played when the people were to fall down and worship the image. The number of man is six.