Five apsid church

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The five-apse church of Müstair

A five-apse church is a church with five apses . The apses are often irregularly distributed over several sides of the building, unlike the three- apse church , where all apses are typically on one side of the building, and the tetraconchos , where there is one apse on each side.

These include, for example:

  • The five-apse church in the western district of the city of Kherson , 8th to 9th centuries
  • The five-apse church of Müstair with a three-apse hall as the main room and two annexes, one in the north as an entrance from the episcopal residence and one in the south for the monks.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alla Ilʹinichna Romanchuk and Heinz Heinen: Studies on the history and archeology of Byzantine Cherson. Pages 74, 85.
  2. ↑ Jürg Goll, Matthias Exner and Susane Hirsch: Müstair - The medieval murals of the monastery church.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 763 kB) Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / info.muestair.ch