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Bijela, Church of St. Peter
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The Church of St. Peter in Bijela was probably built in the Early Christian period (probably in the 5th or 6th century). Fragments of plaster indicate that a pre-Romanesque building was erected on the basis of the original church, which has not been researched so far. For these fragments it could be assumed that they belong to the remains of the former Benedictine Monastery of St. Peter de Campo, which is also mentioned in the charter of Pope Clement VI (1342-1352) from 1345. After the demolition of the church, the present-day church of St. Peter was built by the family Burović from Perast, and some parts of the pre-Romanesque altar screen have been preserved and included in it.
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Kotor, Church of St. Archangel Michael
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The Church of St. Archangel Michael is situated in the old town of Kotor. It is an Early Christian three-nave basilica with an apse on the Eastern side, which is semicircular on the inside and polygonal on the outside. It was probably built in the 6th century and equipped with liturgical furniture of the time, which was added in the 9th century. In the preserved apse are representations of Saints in fresco technique, of which only the lower halves have been preserved. In the first half of the 13th century the original church was demolished and a new single nave edifice was built in Romanesque-Gothic style dedicated to St. Archangel Michael. In the 15th century Lovro Dobričević painted the frescos in the church. The abbot of the church called Peter is mentioned in 1166 in a document regarding the consecration of the altar of the new Romanesque cathedral of St. Tryphon. In the 19th century the church became a military warehouse and is today a museum (lapidarium).
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Kotor, Church of St. Peter in Šuranj
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The Church of St. Peter is situated on the Southern side of the old town of Kotor in the area of Šuranj. The Benedictine monastery was built between the 9th and the 11th century on a former Late Antique building. Judging by the remains, it could be concluded that the Church of St. Peter in Šuranj was a three-nave basilica, with a middle nave twice as wide as the lateral ones. The apse is semicircular on the inside and rectangular on the outside. The side naves end in the East with smaller apses of external and internal semicircular ground plan.
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Kuti, Church of St. Thomas
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The Church of St. Thomas in Kuti near Herceg Novi was probably built in the last quarter of the 11th century. It is a single nave edifice with a semicircular apse in the East as well as with semicircular vaults and a dome, indicating a strong Byzantine influence. Fragments of fresco paintings and stone furnishings have been found. A remaining stone altar screen with two parapets indicates a new, Romanesque style. On the other hand, the fresco decoration (dated to the end of the 11th and the beginning of the 12th century) with heads of Saints points to Byzantine artists, having similarities with the frescoes in the chapel and crypt of the katholikon of the Monastery of Hosios Loukas in Phokis and the Church of St. Nicholas on the island of Koločep. The Church of St. Thomas is in ruins with walls preserved up to a maximum height of ca. 2,5 m.
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Mulo, Church of St. Paul
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The Church of St. Paul, today in ruins, is situated on inaccessible land in the village of Mulo, North-West of Kotor.
The Church is a single-nave building with an apse, rectangular on the outside and semicircular on the inside. The nave was probably vaulted with a barrel vault and covered, like the apse, with a gabled roof. With this shape, the church typologically fits into the group of single-nave buildings with flat (undecorated) wall surfaces.
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Sušćepan, Church of St. Stephen
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The Church of St. Stephen is situated in Sušćepan near Herceg Novi. Based on the preserved capital, it can only be assumed that the pre-Romanesque Church of St. Stephen was built as a three-nave basilica, erected between the 9th and the 11th century. The Early Medieval church was destroyed by the Ottoman invasion and built anew in the 17th and 20th centuries. The current church is a single nave edifice with a semicircular apse in the East and an entrance in the West. The church has been recently pargetted. It is surrounded by a cemetery.
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Tivat, Church of St. Sergius
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The Church of St. Sergius is situated on Djurdjevo brdo in Tivat.
It was built in the 16th century on the grounds of probably Pre-Romanesque edifice with an original inscription, from a lintel mentioning Saint Sergius, Saint Nicholas and Saint Demetrius built into its wall.
Apart from the fragments, built into today's Church, there are no traces of the original building, therefore its orientation, dimensions or materials, architecture and construction are unknown.
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Ulcinj, Church of Christ the Saviour
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The Church of Christ the Saviour is situated in the old town of Ulcinj and was found beneath the Romanesque Church of St. Mary (Sveta Marija). The Church of St. Mary itself was transformed into a mosque (cf. the remnants of a minaret at its South-Western corner) and is now the Archaeological Museum in Ulcinj. The Church of Christ the Saviour was a single nave edifice, perhaps with a dome (as some researchers have suggested). Next to the Southern wall a ciborium was found, which could have belonged to another church.
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