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It is equally remarkable that at least this one Byzantine church has survived more or less in its original form out of the twenty that once stood in Nicaea, and out of the many thousands across the country

Only a few years ago, archaeologists from Bursa University discovered, from aerial photographs of Lake İznik and its surroundings near Nicaea, that ruins were emerging beneath the water — the remains of a large basilica

Beneath each scene of the Creation and the episodes of first men’s story, are four quadrilobe panels with four grotesque creatures, on each of the twice ten pillars

As comical as it was to build a Gothic cathedral in Biniamar, just as banal and farcical was the reason for its failure

The lintel of the Metekhi Church gate has been polished bright over eight hundred years by the kisses of worshippers entering the church. The church, perched on a rock by the river in the heart of Tbilisi, was built in the 5th century by King Vakhtang Gorgasali, the founder of the city, as the chapel of his palace