Church of St. Sergius Complete

ID: 250

Building type: church

Context:

church

Site:

Inscriptions:

402 , 403

Description:

The church dedicated to St. Sergius is generally assigned to the years 537–567 AD. Its plan features a nave divided into three aisles, fronted by a narthex and concluding in a rectangular presbytery. A baptistery appears to have been appended at a later stage along one of the exterior walls. Drawing on the absence of monastic structures in the surrounding area, Butler concluded that the building functioned as a parish church. Plan published in: H. C. Butler (ed.), Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1905–5 and 1909, Division II: Architecture, Section B: Northern Syria, Leiden, 1920, III 191. Further discussion: the same work, 184–186.