Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 33/4. (2013)

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M.Takács

Szabadság 2012. 08. 07. http://www.szabadsag.ro/szabadsag/servlet/szabadsag/template/ article,PMainArticleScreen.vm/id/3001 (a

megtekintés időpontja 2013. 02. 08.)

Zay 2012b

É. Zay, Erdély legrégebbi templomát tárták fel Gyulafehérváron - frissítve, in: Gyulafehérvári Római Katolikus Érsekség (honlap). http://www

. romkat.ro/?q=node/2905 (2013. 02. 08.)

Zivkovic 2002

T. Zivkovic, Juzni Sloveni pod vizantijskom vlascu (600 -1025) / South Slavs under the Byzantian

Summary

The paper analyses one particular and rarely discussed part of religious architecture from Arpadian Hungary, the churches with a cross ground plan, the tetraconch churches, and the cross-domed square structured churches, in order to present new examples. One has to conclude that, even though, the three examples presented here, have the same roots in early Christian architecture of the east Mediterranean, regarding early Middle Ages these cannot be classified as belonging to the Eastern Church. Thus, the church with a cross ground plan was rather known in Carolingian and Ottonian western and middle Europe. At the turn of the first millennium the tetraconch and the

Rule (600-1025), Istorijski Institut, posebna izdanja 38 (Beograd 2002)

Wulff 1914

О. Wulff, Altchristliche und byzantinische Kunst. I—II. Handbuch der Kunstwissenschaft (Berlin [1914]).

Miklós TAKÁCS

MTA-BTK, Régészeti Intézet Budapest, HU

cross-domed square structures were very popular not only in certain parts of the Byzantine Empire but also in Italy. On the basis of such a distribution of examples, it should be stated that, the western or eastern character of an Arpadian church cannot be inferred solely based on the building-type, and even less its confessional affiliation. For the support of the last conclusion it is enough to mention the Benedictine church from Kaposszentjakab built on the basis of a Byzantine model; or the Basilian monks church from Visegrád, built after a north Italian model. Thus, in the case of the newly discovered church of cross-shaped ground plan and/or the cross-domed church at Alba Iulia, the spatial structure of the church should not be used to determine its confessional affiliation.