Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Cathedral of St. James (Croatian: Katedrala sv. Jakova) in Šibenik, Croatia, is a triple-nave Catholic basilica with three apses and a dome (32 m high inside). It is the episcopal seat of the Šibenik diocese. It is also the most important architectural monument of the Renaissance in the entire country.
Cathedral: Cathedral of St. James, Šibenik ... is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Šibenik in the ecclesiastical province of Split ...
Šibenik Cathedral of St James Šibenik: 2000 963; i, ii, iv (cultural) The cathedral is a triple-nave basilica with three apses and a dome (32 metres (105 ft) high inside) and is also one of the most important Renaissance architectural monuments in the eastern Adriatic. [13] Stari Grad Plain: Hvar: 2008 1240; ii, iii, v (cultural)
A cathedral church is a Christian place of worship that is the chief, or "mother" church of a diocese and is distinguished as such by being the location for the cathedra or bishop's seat. In the strictest sense, only those Christian denominations with an episcopal hierarchy possess cathedrals.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
The central church in Šibenik, the Šibenik Cathedral of St James, is on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Several successive architects built it completely in stone between 1431 and 1536, [10] both in Gothic and in Renaissance style. The interlocking stone slabs of the cathedral's roof were damaged when the city was shelled by Yugoslav forces ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 15:23, 2 April 2020: 2,057 × 3,086 (3.23 MB): Bgag {{Information |description ={{en|1=Sculptures on the Cathedral of St. James, Šibenik, Croatia}} {{fr|1=Sculptures sur la Cathédrale Saint-Jacques, Šibenik, Croatie}} |date =2019-04-27 |source ={{own}} |author =Bernard Gagnon}} {{Location|43|44|8.34|N|15|53|21.44|E}} Category:Carved ...
By the 11th and 12th century existed around 50 Benedictine monasteries, with most important being the Abbey of St. Chrysogonus in Zadar (918/986) favoured by the Trpimirović dynasty, followed by St. Andrew near Pula, St. Stephen and St. Mary in Solin (975), St. Maxim in Korčula (997-998), St. Michael in Limska Draga (before 1000), St ...