Location: Feodosiya
The Church of John the Evangelist, belonging to the
buildings of the Genoese fortress (Karantin) in Feodosia,
according to existing data, was built in the XIV-XV
centuries. The temple is an Armenian religious building and
was created in the spirit of similar churches on the
territory of Armenia and Crimea. It was built in the style
of the most ancient buildings of Armenian religious
architecture.
The Church of St. John the Evangelist
is not distinguished by a significant number of decorative
elements - they are preserved only above the door of the
courtyard (ornament, crosses). Thanks to the peculiar
architecture, the Church of St. John the Theologian has very
good acoustics.
The temple is a building of a hall
type, covered with a semicircular vault and arches. Door
openings are framed with profiled platbands with carvings.
The walls of the Church of St. John the Theologian, covered
with stone slabs along the vaults, are made of rubble;
vaults, arches, pilasters, platbands of windows and doors -
from hewn limestone slabs; the seams between the plates are
carefully worn. Along the perimeter of all the walls of the
temple there is a stone bench. On the western side, the
church is adjoined by a vestibule, the ceilings of which
have not been preserved.
The remains of an even more
ancient temple, as well as a small courtyard, in which
dilapidated columns are located, adjoin the Church of St.
John the Theologian.
During its history, the temple
bore the name of St. John the Evangelist, and is currently
closed to the public. The last restoration work in the
church of St. John the Theologian was carried out in 1977.