Maps of Power

Island of Koločep, Church near the Jekavac bay (St. George?)

Crkva kod uvale Jekavac (Sv. Djordje?), Црква код увале Јекавац (Св. Ђорђе?)

Begin between 01.01.0500 and 31.12.0900
End between 01.01.1300 and 31.12.1400

Properties

ID 122248
System Class Place
Case Study Beyond East and West: Sacred Landscapes Duklja and Raška
Dedication Unknown
Evidence Ruins
Ground Plans Single Nave Basilica with a Dome
Place Abandoned Church palaioekklesia crkvište
Stylistic Classification Pre-Romanesque

Description

The Church near the Jekavac bay of unknown dedication (perhaps St. George?) is a single nave buildings of three-aisled vaulted division, probably with a dome over the middle vaulted field, and an apse (semicircular on the inside, and rectangular on the outside) The building belonged to a typical variant of churches with niches on the inside and bare surfaces on the outside.
Some researchers believe it was built on the grounds of a Roman and later Early Christian edifice. The assumption that an Early Medieval Church was created by adapting an earlier Early Christian building is supported by the unusual thickness of the walls. The different way of masonry on certain parts of the wall speaks in favor of the dating of the subsequent intervention in the 14th or 15th century.