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- Title
KİLİSE İÇİNDE KİLİSE: LYKİA'DAKİ GEÇ ANTİK ÇAĞ BAZİLİKAL PLANLI KİLİSELERİN ORTA ÇAĞ'DA İKİNCİ KULLANIMLARI.
- Authors
ERDOĞAN, ORÇUN; CEYLAN, BURCU
- Abstract
Basilicas as the main church type of Early Christianity, with diversity of type and scale, continued to be used at least until the turn of the VIIth century, with additions, modifications and repairs. The end of "Dark Ages" of Byzantine Empire found most of these basilicas in ruins or abandoned. In the later stages, smaller, mostly single nave chapels were constructed within the ruins of these former basilicas. The new chapels were almost inadequate to host a regular mass, with their small size and simple layout. Therefore, other motives must be considered behind the re-use of the Late Antique basilicas in the Middle Ages. The article discusses the phenomenon of "church in church" with the concepts of continuity and meaning of the site. This preliminary study indicates that the underlying motive of building a so called "church in church" is essentially related to keeping the former sacred area alive and the Lycian examples show that some of these functioned as pilgrimage, memorial and cemetery churches as well as chapels used probably for some small-scale rites rather than regular ceremonial masses which are expected to be celebrated in a larger space.
- Subjects
LYCIA; BYZANTINE Empire; MIDDLE Ages; PRIMITIVE &; early church, ca. 30-600; ANTIQUITIES; CHAPELS; PILGRIMS &; pilgrimages; CONTINUITY
- Publication
CEDRUS, 2019, p663
- ISSN
2147-8058
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13113/cedrus.201930