- A
tetraconch, from the Gr**** for "four s****", is a building,
usually a
church or
other religious building, with four apses, one in each direction, usually...
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churches were
built at the site, the
remains of
which are preserved: a
tetraconch (5th century) a three-aisled
basilica (7th century), and a
simple cathedral...
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marchland known to
Armenians as Tayk and to
Georgians as Tao. It is a
large tetraconch design,
surrounded by a near-rotunda
polygonal ambulatory and
marked with...
- The name "Sioni"
derives from
Mount Zion at Jerusalem.
Ateni is the
tetraconch church,
typical for the period. Its
frescoes are one of the best examples...
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Eastern Orthodox forms of
church architecture this is
likely to mean a
tetraconch plan, a Gr**** cross, with arms of
equal length or, later, a cross-in-square...
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church is an
early example of a "four-apsed
church with four niches"
domed tetraconch.
Between the four
apses are three-quarter
cylindrical niches,
which are...
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centrally planned,
aisled tetraconch layout. The
interior of the mosaic-decorated
church was
built in the
shape of a Gr****
cross (
tetraconch), with an
aisle encircling...
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Byzantine Church dated to the 3rd-4th
centuries founded upon an
older tetraconch. Moreover, the
presence of a
temple located just
south of the
church that...
- Arak'elots, the
Church of the Holy Apostles.
Built in the 930's, it has a
tetraconch plan (a
square with four
semicircular apses)
surmounted by a spherical...
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examples of
Armenian architecture". St.
Hripsime belongs to the "inscribed
tetraconch" type
distinctive to
Armenia and Georgia. It was
built during first great...
