The Church of the Holy Apostles was one of the most important buildings in Byzantine Constantinople. The mausolea of Constantine the Great (the main imperial burial place until the eleventh century) and of Justinian I were in the complex surrounding this vast cruciform church. Nothing of this complex appeared to have survived its demolition to clear the site of the Ottoman mosque complex of Fatih Camii after 1461. Fieldwork in 2001 recorded walls pre–dating the fifteenth–century phase of the mosque complex, still standing above ground level and apparently including a large rectilinear structure. This is identified as the Church of the Holy Apostles and an adjacent enclosure may be that containing the mausoleum of Constantine the Great. The reconstructed church plan resembles those of St John of Ephesus and St Mark's (San Marco), Venice – churches known to have been modelled on the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople.
Éditeur : Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques Année d'édition : 2020 Date de mise en ligne : 29 septembre 2020 Collection : Actes des congrès nationaux des sociétés historiques et scientifiques ISBN électronique : 9782735508990 http://books.openedition.org Référence électronique BLARY, François (dir.) ; GÉLY, Jean-Pierre (dir.). Ressources et construction : la transmission des savoirs sur les chantiers. Nouvelle édition [en ligne]. Paris : Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2020 (généré le 20 novembre 2020). Disponible sur Internet : . ISBN : 9782735508990.
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