Tetraconch

Connected Sites: 6

A tetraconch, from the Greek for "four shells", is a building, usually a church or other religious building, with four apses, one in each direction, usually of equal size. The basic ground plan of the building is therefore a Greek cross. (wiki)

Connected Sites

  • Mtskheta
    Mtskheta
    Georgia
    Inscribed: 1994
    3.18
    175
    5
    The Jvari church is an early example of a "four-apsed church with four niches" domed tetraconch. (wiki)
  • Echmiatsin and Zvartnots
    Echmiatsin and Zvartnots
    Armenia
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.05
    144
    6
    Saint Hripsime Church at Echmiatsin: "has a square tetraconch highly complex central plan" (wiki); also Zvartnots "a 7th-century centrally planned aisled tetraconch type"
  • Ravenna
    Ravenna
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1996
    4.15
    272
    8
    The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna (425–30), world-famous for its mosaics, is almost a tetraconch, although there are short vaulted arms leading from the central space to each apse-end. These end in a flat wall with no semi-dome, and the entrance end is slightly longer (wiki)
  • Bosra
    Bosra
    Syria
    Inscribed: 1980
    3.06
    48
    6
    The ruined so-called Cathedral of Bosra, of the early 6th century, is the earliest major Syrian tetraconch church (wiki)
  • Thessalonika
    Thessalonika
    Greece
    Inscribed: 1988
    2.97
    243
    9
    Church of the Saviour
  • Rammelsberg and Goslar
    Rammelsberg and Goslar
    Germany
    Inscribed: 1992
    3.20
    205
    11
    St Ulrich Chapel (Kaiserpfalz, Goslar)