Pridraga, Church of St. Archangel Michael

Crkva Sv. Mihovil (Mihajla), Црква Св. Михајла (Миховил)
Begin between 01.01.0800 and 01.01.1000
Properties
ID 117859
System Class
Place Abandoned Church palaioekklesia crkvište
Case Study Beyond East and West: Sacred Landscapes Duklja and Raška
Dedication Saint Archangel Michael — Saint Archangel Michael is one of the four Archangels and the leader of the Army of God. In popular beliefs he is also the one who judges on the deeds of the faithfull at the day of the death and the Last Judgement.
Denomination Latin
Evidence Ruins — Ruins (from Latin ruina, "a collapse") are the remains of a civilisation's architecture. The term refers to formerly intact structures that have fallen into a state of partial or total disrepair over time due to a variety of factors, such as lack of maintenance, deliberate destruction by humans, or uncontrollable destruction by natural phenomena.
Ground Plans Six-Leaf
Stylistic Classification Pre-Romanesque , Romanesque
Administrative unit Croatia , Zadar County
Description

The Church of St. Archangel Michael was most probably built at the beginning of the 9th century or in the year 1000, as some researchers suggest, and is part of a complex of buildings called "Manastirine". This toponym points towards a ruined monastery at the same place, which had probably survived from late Roman times.
Its a six-leaf edifice of irregular plan, which is today in ruins.

Literature
Goss 1987 — 109 , Regan/Nadilo 2009a — 585-586 , Vežić 2012 — 45

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