2 juin 976 - Myrelaion (Budrum Camii)

Description:

10th century
Constantinople

Commissioned by Romanos II. Period typical brickwork on exterior.
Plan: cross-in-square plan, small naos with only two side aisles, no exterior sacristy, tripartite sanctuary, chancel screen separates beama from naos and creates more opaque liturgical space, uses pendentives to translate dome onto square with illusion of columns supporting

terms: prosthesis, diakonikon, altar apse, bema