Church of the Holy Cross

Church of the Holy Cross is a Croatian Pre-Romanesque Catholic church originating from the 9th century in Nin. According to a idea from an art historian Mladen Pejakovic, the layout has an intentionally unbalanced elliptical form designated to "observe" the location of the Sun, maintaining the functionality of a calendar and sundial. In its beginning, inside the time of the Croatian principality, it was used as a royal chapel of the duke's courtyard close by.

The church is that of a crucial kind, it features the Croatian interlace and a carved call of the Croatian zupan "Godecaj". The church is known under the moniker of "the smallest cathedral within the world", however it does no longer honestly include the seat of a bishop of Nin these days. This is a listing of the bishops of Nin, named after the town of Nin, Croatia. The Bishopric changed into maximum in all likelihood based inside the middle of the 9th century.