The Church of St. Andrew is situated on the Island of Vrgadi, on a cemetery in the Pržina (Pocrikva) bay. It is located at the foot of a hill on which are the remains of an early Byzantine fortress. Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus mentions Vrgada as the only inhabited island in the Zadar area. Therefore, historians assume that this church was used by a Byzantine military fortress.
Its a single nave edifice with a semicircular apse, built probably in the mid-11th century. Some researchers suggest that it was built in the 6th century in order to be reconstructed in the 9th and again in the 11th century.