Summary
Our study examines the architecture of the late byzantine church of the Dormition of Virgin in Zeygostasi, Kastoria. The main church, attributed to the second half of fourteenth century, is a four-column cross-in-square structure. Later on, probably during 18th century, a square narthex was added to the West. The dome is supported by three pillars and a pilaster in the southeast. The cross arms and comer bays ate covered with transversal barrel vaults and externally with pitched roofs. In all the fronts of the arms of the cross are formed shallow arched niches, a vestige of the Epirote tradition. The recessed dog-tooth brick friezes above these fronts, as well as the use of stone colonnettes and the framing recessed dog-tooth brick friezes on the dome drum reveal the survival of the Epirote norms. The octagonal dome has alternately blind arches and narrow lobed windows, with recessed brick bands. Its arches and lobed windows are crowned by a recessed dog-tooth brick frieze, identical to the one in the main apse. The frescoes in the main church are dated from 1431/1432 and those in the narthex from 1749. The examination of constructive and morphological elements of the main church, with its unmistakable links to Epirus, reveals a special relationship with the construction activity in northern Macedonia. The closest parallel is to be found in the small church of Zaum, in the eastern shore of Lake Ohrid, built in 1361, during the period of the Serbian domination.
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