‘Flat-pack’ Church Lost in Shipwreck to Be Built After 1,500 Years
12th November 2015
They probably lost the receipt and so can’t return it. Pity.
The original “flat-pack” church is known to date from the era of the Emperor Justinian, who ruled from around 482 – 565 AD and was a prolific builder in his efforts to regulate Christianity across his empire.
Under his rule, based at Constantinople, large stone-carrying ships laden with prefabricated marble church interiors were sent out from quarries around the Sea of Marmara to sites in Italy and North Africa.