St Ioan Aliturgetos
St John Aliturgetos
The Church of St Ioan Aliturgetos is located in Nesebar, Bulgaria.
The church was not consecrated, hence the name - "aliturgetos" is the Greek for
"not consecrated". The legend says that one of the builders fell down and got
killed. The church canon did not allow a place where a man had been killed to be
used for worship. But according to some records services were held in it. The
church was badly damaged during the 1913 earthquake (Chirpansko earthquake). Its
ruins in the southern part of the peninsula show that it must have been one of
the most beautiful medieval churches in Nessebar. It is a domeed cruciform
church with three altar apses and a narthex. It is 18.5 m long and 10 m wide.
The base of the cruciform part of the church is almost quadrangular, shaped by
four columns. It has mixed masonry: stone and brick; the facade walls are
segmented by blind two-step niches decorated with various geometrical patterns
from bricks and stone cubes (ceramic plastic style). The church was built in the
14th century; it has two entrances, from the north and south, which is rare in
the architecture of church buildings.
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