Church of St John the Evangelist, Biograd na Moru

In Biograd na Moru, in Zadar County, one can see the foundations and low walls of the former Church of St John the Evangelist. It is interesting to visitors as a testimony to the time of the Croatian rulers, when the town was an important seat.

The sanctuary was consecrated in 1076 and belonged to a male Benedictine monastery founded in the 11th century by King Petar Krešimir IV. The surviving walls, up to about a metre high, reveal the plan of a three-aisled basilica, 29 metres long and 12.5 metres wide. On the west side was a porch, and on the east three semicircular apses projecting outward. The outer walls were articulated by shallow lesenes, and traces in the apse show that the interior was decorated with frescoes.

A protected cultural property, entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-1737.

Data: Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia (Ministry of Culture and Media), Open Licence; coordinates: DGU (centre of the settlement).