To the Issue of Timing and Circumstancesof Rebuilding the Synagogue into the Church in ChersonesosTo the Issue of Timing and Circumstancesof Rebuilding the Synagogue into the Church in Chersonesos

  • Maria V. Parkhomenko V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
  • Mykhailo V. Fomin Kharkiv city council
Keywords: Chersonesos, Basilica 1935, first Christian temple, synagogue, The Lives of Holy Bishops of Cherson, Aetherius.

Abstract

The article analyses the strands from The Lives of Holy Bishops of Cherson related with the construction of the first Christian temple in the city, as well as archaeological material discovered in the early temple Basilica 1935. The analysis showed that most probably there was a synagogue functioning in the Late Ancient and Early Mediaeval Chersonesos within a short period of time in the 4th century. It belonged to an intermediate “wide house” square-shaped type Quadratbau dated predominantly by the 3rd and 4th centuries. In the early 390s, in the time of Aetherius, bishop of Cherson, it was reconstructed into the Christian church. The remains of the church under Basilica 1935 can be determined in sacral topography of Chersonesos as one of the earliest monuments of Christian art in the city.

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