Church of Saint Eirene

church, Istanbul, Turkey

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In Western architecture: The early Byzantine period (330–726)
…Bacchus, a centralized building; the church of St. Eirene (Irene), a basilica roofed by two domes in echelon (i.e., parallel-stepped arrangement); the church of the Holy Apostles, which was cruciform, with a dome at the crossing and another on each of the arms of the cross; and, finally, the great…
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