North Zelenchuksky Church

The North Church, also known as the North Zelenchuk Church, is an Alanian Eastern Orthodox church dating from the late 10th to early 11th century, located at the Lower Arkhyz settlement in the valley of the Bolshoy Zelenchuk River in Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia. The North Church is one of three surviving cross-domed churches from the 10th–11th centuries located at the Lower Arkhyz settlement. The oldest of these, the Middle Zelenchuk Church, was built in the 10th century and served as the cathedral of all Alania. The North Church, erected in the late 10th or early 11th century, was probably the principal church of a large monastery. The Small South Church was the last to be built, in the late 11th or early 12th century, and may have belonged to one of the noble families of Alania.

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