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Holy sites encircled. The early Byzantine concentric churches of Jerusalem /

The round and octagonal churches of Jerusalem were the earliest of their kind. Powerful, monumental structures, recalling imperial mausolea and temples, they enshrined the holiest sites of Christianity. Constantine himself ordered the building of the first ones immediately after the council of Nicae...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shalev-Hurvitz, Vered (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford studies in Byzantium.
Subjects:
Church architecture > Byzantine Empire.
Church history.

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