Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Tkon

The parish church of St. Thomas the Apostle stands in Tkon on the island of Pašman, in Zadar County. For visitors it is interesting as a three-aisled basilica with a stone bell tower, which also survived war damage.

The church is 24 meters long and 11 wide, with a rectangular sanctuary on the southeastern side. Along the southwestern side of the facade rises a three-storey stone bell tower with four bells. The oldest part is the sanctuary, onto which the three-aisled basilica was later built; the raised main nave is separated from the side ones by a colonnade of columns. Bishop Zmajević visited it in 1714 and described it as dilapidated, and consecrated it in 1742, as attested by an inscription on a marble plaque. It was renovated in 1938, in the Allied bombing of 1944 the church and bell tower were damaged, and it was repaired in 1956. It was built between the 14th and 18th centuries.

The church is a protected cultural good, entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-5978.

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