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Apse
ID: INSGKU06 · © Carl Rasmussen · Added: 2013

Apse

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View looking east at the apse of the church. In the apse is a low bench called a synthronos. In front of the apse is the chancel where the clergy performed the rites of the church. In the foreground was a mosaic floor that has been totally destroyed.

The church has been extensively reconstructed using local basalt stone.