The Christian building at Dura-Europos is the world’s earliest known house-church. The most elaborate and ritually significant room in the building was the baptistery, where Christians welcomed members into their community through the sacrament of baptism. In this wall painting from the baptistery, which survives in three fragments (from left to right, 1932.1201a–c), several elegantly dressed women carry torches and bowls in procession. Additional fragmentary figures from the north and east walls indicate that there were originally ten women depicted, moving from right to left through the space just as the initiates would have done. What they approach is unclear—possibly the empty sepulcher of Christ on Easter morning, or the tent of the heavenly bridegroom, adorned by two stars, perhaps representing angels. Located next to the baptismal font, the scene instructed initiates that they were entering into a new spiritual relationship with God.