The New Testament church came into existence on the first Day of Pentecost following Jesus' ascension. The account is found in Acts 2.
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As far as I know the church was started by Paul in the new testament. And not in the old testament. At that time in the old testament they had the temple only. And Jesus also never did built a church in his life time.
The early Church created the New Testament.
Jesus mentions 'the church' 18 times in the New Testament.
The New Testament was developed over the course of the first 250-300 years of the history of Christians. It started as oral tradition and evolved from there.
The word "church" appears 113 times in the King James version of the New Testament.