Holy Sites Encircled: The Early Byzantine Concentric Churches of Jerusalem

by Vered Shalev-Hurvitz

The round and octagonal churches of Jerusalem were the earliest of their kind. Powerful, monumental structures, recalling imperial mausolea and temples, they enshrined the holiest sites of Christianity. Constantine himself ordered the building of the first ones immediately after the council of Nicaea (325), his main objective being the authentication of Jesus's existence in Jerusalem in accordance with the council's resolutions, but the sites he chose...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199653771
• ISBN13: 9780199653775
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 1.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"