Saint Nicholas’s Church | |
Native Name: | Kisha e Nikollës së Shejntë |
Native Language: | Albanian |
Location: | Mušnikovo, Prizren, Kosovo |
Built: | Middle Ages |
Designation1 Type: | Archaeological |
Designation1 Criteria: | Under protection |
Designation1 Partof: | 507/56; LZVM |
Designation1 Number: | 2954 |
Saint Nicholas's Church is a cultural heritage monument in Mušnikovo, Prizren, Kosovo.[1]
Saint Nicholas's Church lies west of Mušnikovo, 15.8km (09.8miles) from Prizren. It is a one-nave rectangular church with a triangular apse facing eastward. The interior frescos point to construction in the 16th century from stone bound with lime mortar plastered on the outside under a two-layer stone slab roof. Two rectangular windows and two niches with semi-arched openings, one of each on the northern and one on the southern façade, are among the notable external features, along with a western annex still not opening to the older structure. The annex, like the main church, is rectangular and plastered white on the outside, but with the two-layer roof made instead of galvanized sheet metal. The reinforced concrete bell tower, with its four-layer clay tile roof, was built recently and faces westward from the annex. The churchyard doubles as the local cemetery.[2]