This contribution in honour of Christian J. Robin summarizes the state of the art regarding the architectural study of the Great Church of Abrāha at Ṣanʿāʾ. Following a paper by Christian J. Robin “La grande église d’Abraha à Ṣanʿāʾ : quelques remarques sur son emplacement, ses dimensions et sa date”, published in 2015 in Serie Semitica Antiqua 3, that provided a suggestion to the definition of the dimension and proportion of the famous building, a hypothetical reconstruction of the church is proposed after a comparison with the Christian architectural models of Eastern Arabia.

Textual sources and archaeological evidence for the study of Christian architecture in pre-Islamic Yemen: notes on Great Church of Abrāha at Sanaa

Romolo Loreto
2023-01-01

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This contribution in honour of Christian J. Robin summarizes the state of the art regarding the architectural study of the Great Church of Abrāha at Ṣanʿāʾ. Following a paper by Christian J. Robin “La grande église d’Abraha à Ṣanʿāʾ : quelques remarques sur son emplacement, ses dimensions et sa date”, published in 2015 in Serie Semitica Antiqua 3, that provided a suggestion to the definition of the dimension and proportion of the famous building, a hypothetical reconstruction of the church is proposed after a comparison with the Christian architectural models of Eastern Arabia.
2023
978-2-7053-4116-9
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