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Mokissos, Viransehir Church III. Groundplan

Location:

  • Türkiye, Helvadere
  • geo:38.186298,34.207424
  • Location uncertain

Period or year:

  • 3xx / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=52157

Annotations

The so-called Kemerli Kilise of Mokisos (Viranşehir) is a Byzantine IV th century cruciform domed church. The asonry church in cross plan. The cross-arms of the church are different from each other.

See:

  1. Robert G. Ousterhout, A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia,  Dumbarton Oaks, 2005
  2. Albrecht Berger, Viranşehir (Mokisos), eine frühbyzantinische Stadt in Kappadokien. In: Istanbuler Mitteilungen 48, 1998, pp. 349–429
  3. The history of Kırşehir dates back to the Hittites period. During Hittite period town lays in the country named Ahiyuva.
  4. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1179.htm
  5. Walter Ruben: Kırşehir. Eine altertümliche Kleinstadt Inneranatoliens. Herausgegeben von Gerhard Ruben. (= Arbeitsmaterialien zum Orient, Bd. 13). Würzburg, Ergon 2003.
  6. Viransehir 1-http://tayproject.org/TAYBizansMar.fm$Retrieve?YerlesmeNo=21095&html=bizansdetaile.html&layout=web

 


Nearby

Mokissos - Justinianopolis

Byzantine town. Macissus / Mocissus also Parnassos. Mokisos. Helvadere Kasabasi. Nora.

Mokissos, Viransehir V

Early Byzantine church.


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