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Armenia, Echmiadzin Cathedral, 304, 484, 618, 1685
Echmiadzin Cathedral has basically a cruciform floor plan - not copied from the Aghia Sophia in Constantinople, which was built 250 years later! Strictly speaking this is not a "Romanesque" church, one reason why it is rarely refered to in treatises on Romanesque architecture. However its earliest version is one of the first surviving Christian churches - and Armenian masterbuilders subsequently constructed buildings for many patrons elsewhere, from Georgia and Antiochia, to the mosques of Isfahan in the 17th cent!
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by Karen_T, Panoramio