THE CHURCH OF SAINT
T SAVIOR IN PRIZREN (KOSOVO):
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A DOU
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CHURCH
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project
Results will be published at a later date.
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Subdivision of the principal stages of the consstruction – Hypothesis
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The Church built in 1836: The annex Church.
Church (stages 2 to 5)
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the large Church.
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Project Title: Restoration of the Church o
of Saint-Sauveur in Prizren
Late Byzantine architecture and mediaev
val Serbian fresco paintings
Stage 1: Documentation and Technical Analyses
Country: Kosovo
Municipaliity: Prizren,
Prizren 22
City: Prizren
District: N
Nënkalaja/Podkalaja
Unesco’ss Agency: Venice office – BRESCE
Unesco
Project Coordinator : Patrimoine sans frontièress (Psf) N
N.G.O.
G O – Paris
Institute in charge: Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments- Prizren –
Kosovo
Calendar: July
July-September
September 2009
Architectural Study
y Team
Civil Engineering Manager
Manager-Architectural
Architectural Experts T
Team Coordinator :
Ing Simona Sajeva - Studio Sajeva - Palermo – Italy
Ing.
Architectural lists: MP Design and Construction Lim.
Lim Comp -Istambul
Istambul, Turkey
Field Characteristics
Characteristics’ Study: G&G Group Tirana – Albania
The church of St.
St Savior in Prizren is a double
e church,
church composed of two major architectural campaigns.
campaigns The
older of which dates from the 14th century. The
e later building phase remained unfinished and is comprised of a
more recentt annex dating
d ti g from
f
th 19th centu
the
tury.
y It incorporates
i
p t a larger
l g stone
t
church
h h with
ith an accompanying
p yi g
belfry The high walls have remained around the
belfry.
e churchyard,
churchyard together with the belfry.
belfry The monument was set on
fire in 1999 and in 2004,
fire,
2004 leaving it badly dama
aged The church continued to be used until 1999,
aged.
1999 after which it
was then abandoned.
The co
The
conservation
se vatio p
project
oject
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started
sta
ted
d in
i July
J l 2009
009
9 w
with
ith a mission
issio w
which
hich was devoted
d
d to: tthe
he research
esea ch a
and
d tthe
he
analysis
y
of existing
g documentation,
documentation, the underttakingg of an architectural and topographical
p g p
surveyy, the analysis
survey,
y
and understanding of structural elements,
elements the geological,
geological geotechnical and hydro geological survey and finally
to the archaeological investigations.
investigations Each actio
on was carried out under the supervision of the Institute for the
P
Protection
i
off Cultural
C l
l Monuments
M
off Prizren
Pi
Prizren’s
’s Municipality.
M i i li
Th exchange
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h
off information
i f
i
and
d the
h interaction
i
i
between the experts,
experts
p
, concerning
g the differentt elements of the p
project
project,
j , has enabled them to achieve a g
global
understanding of the structure,
structure of its actual con
ndition and of the risks for its safeguard.
safeguard
sim
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@viisio
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