What are the architectural features of a Byzantine church?


What are the architectural features of a Byzantine church? Their combination of the basilica and symmetrical central-plan (circular or polygonal) religious structures resulted in the characteristic Byzantine Greek-cross-plan church, with a square central mass and four arms of equal length. The most distinctive feature was the domed roof.


What are three characteristics of the Byzantine Church?

Byzantine architecture was heavily influenced by Constantine's Early Christian style architecture and had many similarities in its core characteristics such as the use of mosaics, a focus on the apse, and the use of high windows called a clerestory which can be seen in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy.