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A room near the church’s apse contains fragments of a sarcophagus believed to be St. Neophytos’s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

There is still scaffolding around much of the eastern end, and in coming years the outside walls of the apse and sacristy will need treatment.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

The floor plans of Aksumite churches generally followed that of Byzantine churches or basilica, meaning they were oblong in shape with a rounded apse at one end.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

She took inspiration from figurative paintings representing the four Christian evangelists as a lion, an eagle, a bull and an angel in the apse of St. Michael’s church in Ferrara.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2021

There’s too much ornate woodwork here, and the precious layerings of molding and mullion and balustrade and apse, all those thousands of genteel decisions, the studied cuts, just unsettle me.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee