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A room near the church’s apse contains fragments of a sarcophagus believed to be St. Neophytos’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
The floor plans of Aksumite churches generally followed that of Byzantine churches or basilica, meaning they were oblong in shape with a rounded apse at one end.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
It was only possible to complete the apse, choir and transepts.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2023
Then you can sit in the chapel’s apse and listen to a soothing ambient composition, piped through speakers.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
There’s too much ornate woodwork here, and the precious layerings of molding and mullion and balustrade and apse, all those thousands of genteel decisions, the studied cuts, just unsettle me.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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