Architecture of 12th century Galicia-Volhynian Rus’ (part of modern-day Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland), reflects Byzantine, Romanesque and Slavic influences. The church of Saint Panteleimon in Old Halych, the best-preserved example of monumental architecture in Galicia-Volhynian Rus’, stands at the crossroads of Eastern and Western Europe. Its heavy stone structure, gabled roof, single dome on a…
Stone construction in Kyivan Rus was initiated by Byzantine masters after Christianity had been adopted as the state religion in 988. The most widespread type of ecclesiastical architecture in 12th-century Kyivan Rus was the arch-gabled church, characterised by the completion of all facade bays with semicircular arched gables, some of them being constructive (filling the…
At the site of Dvorine, in the old cemetery of the village of Banja on the slopes of Mount Venčac in central Serbia, archaeologists made three trenches in 2011 and unexpectedly came across the remains of a church, which were explored from 2016 to 2020. The church was of considerable size, featuring a cross-in-square plan…