• The Nea Ekklēsia (Medieval Greek: Νέα Ἐκκλησία, "New Church"; known in English as "The Nea") was a church built by Byzantine Emperor Basil I the Macedonian...
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    527–565). Like the later Nea Ekklesia (Νέα Ἐκκλησία) in Constantinople, it is sometimes referred to in English as "the Nea" or the "Nea Church". The church...
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  • Kingdom Nuclear Energy Agency Nea (given name) Nea (singer) New England Aquarium, an aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts Nea Ekklesia (New Church), a church built...
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  • Ecclesia (redirect from Ekklesia)
    ecclesiae, or ekklesia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ecclesia (Greek: ἐκκλησία ekklēsia) may refer to: Ecclesia (ancient Greece) or Ekklēsia, the principal...
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    murdered by Basil. Basil personally oversaw the construction of the Nea Ekklesia cathedral and his palatine hall the Kainourgion. His ecclesiastical policy...
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    the Sigma. To the east of the Triconchos lay the lavishly decorated Nea Ekklesia ("New Church"), built by Basil I, with five gilded domes. The church...
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    by-the-Dome Church of Theotokos Kyriotissa Church of Saint Andrew in Krisei Nea Ekklesia Pammakaristos Church Stoudios Monastery Toklu Dede Mosque Church of Saint...
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    that Basil I's votive church of the Theotokos of the Pharos and the Nea Ekklesia (both no longer existent) served as a model for most cross-in-square...
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    that Emperor Justinian's "Nea Ekklesia of the Theotokos", lit. 'the New Church of the God-Bearer' and commonly known as the Nea Church, dedicated to the...
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  • – Akhtala Monastery built, intended as a fortress. 800s – 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square...
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    and served as a model—besides Germigny-des-Prés and San Satiro—for the Nea Ekklesia church in Constantinople and the churches of Mount Athos in Greece. The...
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    Aghlabids in a night battle near Cephalonia (modern Greece). May 1 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, by Patriarch Photius I, setting the...
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    Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi Yeshivat HaKotel Church of St. Mary of the Germans Nea Ekklesia of the Theotokos Chapel of the Ascension – part of a mosque, but venerated...
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    this age followed the decoration scheme first used in Emperor Basil I's Nea Ekklesia. Not only this prototype was later totally destroyed but each surviving...
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  • Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor. 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square...
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    development can be traced back with a fair degree of certainty at least to the Nea Ekklesia, consecrated in 880/881. Pendentive dome: Generally speaking, a pendentive...
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    damaged by a severe earthquake in 869, and in 880 a five-domed church "Nea Ekklesia" ("New Church") was built near the imperial palace, which became a model...
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  • Basil I in order to erect the Nea Ekklesia church in its place, and rebuilt in larger size further east, connected to the Nea with two galleries. Aside from...
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    number of building works, including the once magnificent Nea Ekklesia of the Theotokos ("the Nea") and the extension of the Cardo thoroughfare. c. 600:...
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  • 880 Fourth Council of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox) held. 1 May: Nea Ekklesia built. 907 – Siege of Constantinople (907). 908 – Lips Monastery built...
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    building material for the erection of Emperor Basil I the Macedonian's Nea Ekklesia church in Constantinople. When the fleet eventually sailed, under the...
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  • Wittenberg (Schloßkirche), designed by Conrad Pflüger, begun. Former Nea Ekklesia church in Constantinople destroyed by a lightning strike. 1493 – Tomb...
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    early 9th century church in Tirilye, now called the Fatih Mosque. The Nea Ekklesia of Emperor Basil I was built in Constantinople around 880 as part of...
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  • Navarrese Company Navy, Byzantine Naxos Naxos, Duchy of Nea Ekklesia Nea Ekklesia of the Theotokos Nea Moni of Chios Near Eastern archaeology Neboulos Nectarius...
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    accounts, appears to have been a cross-in-square. The influence of the Nea Ekklesia (New Church) in the Great Palace of Constantinople, built around 880...
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    Fleet was occupied with transporting marble for the construction of the Nea Ekklesia, Basil's new church. In 880, Ooryphas' successor, the droungarios Nasar...
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  • Italian mercenaries, began to loot the buildings. They even reached the Nea Ekklesia and the Church of the Virgin of the Pharos, the Empire's chief depository...
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    Together with the churches of St Stephen in the Daphne Palace and the Nea Ekklesia, the Virgin of the Pharos came to hold one of the major collections of...
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  • Aghlabids in a night battle near Cephalonia (modern Greece). May 1 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, by Patriarch Photius I, setting the...
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    in Constantinople to adopt this plan, whose prototype is possibly the Nea Ekklesia ("New Church"), erected in Constantinople in the year 880, of which no...
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