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Lipljan, Church of the Mother of God

Bogorodičina crkva, Lipljan, Богородичина црква, Липљан

Begin between 01.01.0500 and 31.12.0900
End 31.12.1330

Properties

ID 130115
System Class Place
Place Ritual Place
Case Study Beyond East and West: Sacred Landscapes Duklja and Raška
Dedication Blessed Virgin Mary
Denomination Orthodox
Evidence Existing Monument
Ground Plans Three Nave Basilica
Stylistic Classification Pre-Romanesque , Latin-Byzantine Combination
Administrative unit Serbia , Kosovo

Description

The Church in Lipljan is situated South of the city of Priština. St. Sava integrated the bishoprics of Prizren and Lipljan into the newly established Serbian Church.
The Church was first built in the 5th or 6th century. In the 10th or 11th century, on the ruins of the older building, a new edifice was erected as the three-nave basilica with three-sided apses. Some fragments of fresco paintings still remain.
Around 1330 today's Church was built, by an unknown ktetor. Its a single-nave edifice with vault and an apse which is semicircular on the the inside and rectangular on the outside.