Cross-in-square

Panagia Chalkeon, an 11th-century cross-in-square church in Thessaloniki. View from the north east.

A cross-in-square or crossed-dome floor plan was the dominant form of church architecture in the middle and late Byzantine Empire. It featured a square centre with an internal structure shaped like a cross, topped by a dome.


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