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- 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...
- churches were built at the site, the remains of which are preserved: a tetraconch (5th century AD) a three-aisled basilica (7th century), and a simple cathedral...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- heavily than those converted into mosques. It has, or originally had, a tetraconch plan with a central dome enclosed by a tower, which renders it a uni****...
- Monastery in Mtskheta, and served as a model for the development of the later tetraconch (four-apse) form. [citation needed] The site is ruins today, with only...
- member of the Etchmiadzin brotherhood. St. Hripsime Church is a domed tetraconch enclosed in a rectangle, with two angular niches on the northern and southern...