Church of Nuhrut
The church of Nuhrut , also written Nuhrud ( Turkish Nuhrut Kilisesi ), is a Byzantine church , which is dated to the time between 500 and 800 AD.
The half-ruined church is located in the village of Nuhrut (today Gürkuyu), which belongs to the Halfeti district in the Turkish province of Şanlıurfa and is 21 km east of the city of Halfeti of the same name.
The church has a floor plan of 17 m × 10 m and has an apse , which is built to the east . There is no inscription that allows an exact dating of the historical building.
literature
- Alexander Zäh: A late antique church in Nuhrud (today: Gürkuyu) in northern Mesopotamia . In: Wolfgang Hörander (Ed.): Yearbook of Austrian Byzantine Studies 51 , Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften , Vienna 2001, ISBN 978-3-7001-2993-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Project Zeugma: Mission Archéologique de Zeugma. Satellite remote sensing and archaeological survey on the Euphrates 2002 ( 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. , February 3, 2008
