Albanian Cultural Heritage

The Saint Triad Church. The church built
between the second half of 13th century
and the beginning of 14th century is the
best example of the inscribed cross-type
churches with a cupola. Its composition
consists of the naos supported on four
pillows and narthex built later on. The
wings are formed from an archway system
and the center is the cupola. The church’s
walls are built with stones, pieces of bricks
in the lower part and with opus mixtum in
the upper part. The interior of the church is
covered with mural paintings.
BERATI COUNTY
The “Lead” Mosque known as charity of
Ahmet Skurës has been built up in the
middle of XVIth century. The social cultural
and religious complex is embodied in the
topology of classic Turkish portic style
like hall–cupola and a mosque at the
right of the entrance. Together with the
mosque they were a tekke and a helevet
tarikatit and a bathroom of water supply
from the aqueduct built in 1640 from the
architect imperial Reiz Mimar Kasemi. It
is not known when these constructions
have been ruined but at the end of 19th
century the portik of the mosque has
been reconstructed. According to Evlija
Celebiut the old portik was with arcades
and covered with seven cupolas. The left
tracks indicate that it lay out of the actual
longitude but the new constructions
hinder definition of its plan.
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