Apsis is Greek for curve or rounding.
An apsis in a church or cathedral is a rounded or multiple corner niche-like bulge of the straight base. Often you will find an apsis at the end of the choir, and sometimes also at the end of the nave (even on the west side), the trancepts or side chapels.
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ListPos | Mini thumb | Name | Country | Place | Score | Begin
year | | 1 |  | Sint-Servatiuskerk (te Sluizen)
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Church, Neo-Romanesque, Rhine Romanesque, apse, apsis, brick mosaik, choir, chancel, western tower | BELGIUM | TONGEREN | 5.3 / 1410 | | | 2 |  | Carolus Borromeus Church
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Church, Baroque, stuccowork, high altar, main altar, pillar order, coffer, belt arch, pulpit, Dorian colons, organ, Corinthian column, Ionic colons, apse, apsis, baroque porche, portal, confessional, painting, wood-carving, wood-engraving, baroque façade, galery, statue (as an ornament), nave, flanking aisle, side aisle, tower, marble, pilaster, chapel (in church or other building), painted ceiling, pinnacle, Jezuïten, Jan Peter van Baurscheit de Oudere, Jozef Druart, Pieter Paul Rubens, Michiel. Senior van der Voort (ook Vervoort), de Nole | BELGIUM | ANTWERP | 5.7 / 3012 | 1615 | | 3 |  | Saint Gertrude
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Church, Norman (Romanesque), Maas romanesque, Gothic, choir, chancel, cross ribvaulting, diagonal rib vault, basilica, semi-circular (round) arch, crypt, column dividing a window or door, limestone, western block, nave, apse, apsis, block, cushion or cubic capital, moulding, pulpit, arched corbel course, abacus, impost block, flanking aisle, side aisle | BELGIUM | NIVELLES | 5.6 / 2634 | ~ 1050 | | 4 |  | Our-Ladies cathedral
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Church, Cathedral, World Heritage, Norman (Romanesque), Gothic, Renaissance, painting, Stone from Doornik, crossing tower, portico, window with round arch, buttress, staircase turret, staircase tower, apse, apsis, tunnel vault (barrel vault), western block, transept, choir, chancel, pilaster, triforium, rood loft, choir screen, niche, truss, gallery, pointed arch, nave, chapel (in church or other building), flanking aisle, side aisle, three-aisled, clustered column, Pieter Paul Rubens, Cornelis Floris de Vriendt (Floris) | BELGIUM | TOURNAI | 5.6 / 1465 | | | 5 |  | Out Lady of the Assistance church
Picture by Jan Boeykens (@Quernus)
Keywords:Church, Renaissance, Baroque, tabernacle, statue (as an ornament), centralized pattern, facade, face, apse, apsis, dome (cupola), tabernacle, plan, painting, organ, flame vase, scutcheon, armorial bearings, coat of arms, choir, chancel, Ionic capital, gallery, pilaster, nave, gable, fronton, Jan Cortvrindt, Pieter-Paul Merckx, Willem De Bruyn | BELGIUM | BRUSSELS | 5.5 / 1454 | 1664 | | 6 |  | Saint-Martinchurch
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Church, Neo-Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Norman (Romanesque), rood beam, ceiling, tympanum, doorway (porch), apse, apsis, semi-circular (round) arch, pointed arch, nave, choir, chancel, tower, mouldings, dripstone moulding, medaillon, E. Serrure | BELGIUM | SINT-TRUIDEN | 5.7 / 2284 | ~ 1550 | | 7 |  | Saint-Peter's church
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Church, Norman (Romanesque), Maas romanesque, western tower, pyramidal roof, apse, apsis, doorway (porch), choir, chancel, three-aisled, Sedes Sapientiae, window with round arch, nave, bay, span, sandstone | BELGIUM | BERTEM | 5.8 / 1393 | ~ 990 | | 8 |  | Our Ladies' and Saint Remaclus' church
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Church, Neo-Romanesque, trumeau, altar, crossing tower, retable, concha, semi-dome, half dome, vaultal painting, dome (cupola), pendentive, nave, arched corbel course, western block, choir, chancel, arcade, moulding, apse, apsis, transept, drum, pillar, blind arcade | BELGIUM | SPA | 5.3 / 1724 | 1885 | | 9 |  | Saint-Gangulfus' church
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Church, Norman (Romanesque), Gothic, triumph cross, pillar, pier, semi-circular (round) arch, cruciform church, western tower, apse, apsis, nave, central aisle, three-aisled, half-relief, transept, tympanum, window with round arch, choir, chancel, lancet, marl stone, flanking aisle, side aisle | BELGIUM | SINT-TRUIDEN | 4.9 / 2397 | | | 10 |  | Saint-John the Evangelist's church
Picture by Jan Boeykens (@Quernus)
Keywords:Church, Norman (Romanesque), Neo-classicism, Late gothic, Sedes Sapientiae, statue (as an ornament), scalemodel, window with round arch, western tower, column dividing a window or door, dome (cupola), staircase turret, staircase tower, cloisters, centralized pattern, confessional, sandstone, apse, apsis, choir, chancel, Notger, J.-B. Renoz | BELGIUM | LIEGE | 5.5 / 1353 | ~ 980 | | 11 |  | Saint-Denis' church
Picture by Jochem Baas
Keywords:Church, Norman (Romanesque), Maas romanesque, Rococo, Gothic, lancet arch, window with round arch, eagle lectern, chapter church, organ, high altar, main altar, statue (as an ornament), carara marble, staircase turret, staircase tower, apse, apsis, western block, choir, chancel, transept, central aisle, gradin, retable, flanking aisle, side aisle, pulpit, sandstone, nave, limestone, browne stone from Lorraine, organ-case, brick, tower, church treasure, slate, slatestone, rood loft, choir screen, Cornelis Van der Veken, Guillaume Evrard, Gérard Van der Planck, Lambert Lombard, Arnold de Hontoir | BELGIUM | LIEGE | 5.6 / 1032 | ~ 987 | | 12 |  | Saint Amand church
Picture by Jan Boeykens (@Quernus)
Keywords:Church, Neo-Romanesque, triforium, confessional, semi-circular (round) arch, arcade, tunnel vault (barrel vault), brick, rose window, leaded windows, foliage capital, organ, pillar, column dividing a window or door, apse, apsis, nave, western tower, baptismal font, choir, chancel, layer of bacon, Josef Schadde | BELGIUM | ROESELARE | 5.5 / 1905 | 1869 | | 13 |  | Saint-Hadelin
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Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Church, Maas romanesque, crypt, choir stalls, clamp butress, pilaster strip, nave, apse, apsis, staircase turret, staircase tower, western block, western tower, choir, chancel, niche, flanking aisle, side aisle, basilica, transept | BELGIUM | HOUYET | 5.3 / 1459 | ~ 1050 | | 14 |  | Saint-Nicolas church
Picture by Jan Boeykens (@Quernus)
Keywords:Church, Early gothic, Neo-gothic, Baroque, statue (as an ornament), three-aisled, western tower, hall-church, nave, aisle, altar, pointed arch, brick, doorway (porch), apse, apsis, choir, chancel, transept, pulpit, bell, Lodewijk De Deijster, Premonstratiënzers, Parmentier | BELGIUM | VEURNE | 5.1 / 1864 | | | 15 |  | Saint-Sophia's church / Old Bishopric
Picture by Jan Boeykens (@Quernus)
Keywords:Ruins, World Heritage, Church, Cathedral, Byzantine Architecture, three-aisled, apse, apsis, choir, chancel, narthex | Bulgaria | Nessebar | 5.8 / 50 | | | 16 |  | Roman Catholic Ascension Cathedral
Picture by Jan Boeykens (@Quernus)
Keywords:Cathedral, dome (cupola), choir, chancel, portico, mausoleum, nave, side altar, statue (as an ornament), altarpiece, high altar, main altar, carara marble, baptismal font, reliquary, pulpit, iron, balcony, apse, apsis, tower, pillar, organ, facade, facade, face, spire, crypt | Romania | Satu Mare | 5.5 / 50 | | | 17 |  | Our Ladies' church
Picture by Jan Boeykens (@Quernus)
Keywords:Church, Neo-gothic, transept, apse, apsis, tower | FRANCE | Bergerac | 5.7 / 134 | | | 18 |  | Saint Saturn's church
Picture by Jan Boeykens (@Quernus)
Keywords:Church, choir, chancel, apse, apsis | FRANCE | Bégadan | 5.4 / 46 | | | 19 |  | Saint Chrysogonus Church
Picture by Jan Boeykens (@Quernus)
Keywords:Church, Norman (Romanesque), pillar, apse, apsis, passage under semi-circular arch, semi-circular (round) arch, choir, chancel | CROATIA | ZADAR | 5.2 / 169 | | | 20 |  | Saint-Bavon's church (in Mendonk)
Picture by Jean-Pierre Pottelancie
Keywords:Church, Neo-Romanesque, buttress, driplist out of sandstone, apse, apsis, brick, choir, chancel, confessional, Cesar Cesar Vanhevele, A. Bressers, De Perre - Montigny | BELGIUM | GENT | 5.4 / 1620 | | | 21 |  | Saint-Peter and Paul 's church (in Saint-Séverin)
Picture by Jan Boeykens (@Quernus)
Keywords:Church, Grave, graveyard, Norman (Romanesque), baptismal font, arched corbel course, tombstone, grave stone, engaged column, inbedded column, pillar, pier, three-aisled, flanking aisle, side aisle, colonnade, crossing tower, pilaster, central aisle, tub, vat, apse, apsis, pillar, srewformed decoration | BELGIUM | NANDRIN | 5.8 / 2264 | ~ 1136 | | 22 |  | Saint-Anthonchurch
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Church, Neo-Romanesque, staircase turret, staircase tower, choir, chancel, apse, apsis, P.A. Castermans | BELGIUM | VERVIERS | 5.5 / 1846 | 1882 | | 23 |  | Saint Lambert church
Arch L. Van Arenbergh
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Church, Neo-Romanesque, belfry window, tooth course, dentils, western tower, tympanum, semi-circular (round) arch, brick, passage under semi-circular arch, choir, chancel, apse, apsis, arched corbel course, staircase turret, staircase tower, three-aisled, half-relief, cruciform church, spire, doorway (porch), Louis Van Arenbergh | BELGIUM | LEUVEN | 5.5 / 1788 | 1878 | | 24 |  | Arduinen kerk
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Abbey, convent, monastery, Church, Classicism, fronton, pilaster, apse, apsis, tabernacle, balustrade, railing, pier arch, cornice (corona), nave, aisle, Cistercienzers | BELGIUM | BRUGES | 5.6 / 1999 | | | 25 |  | Onze-Lieve-Vrouw ten Predikheren
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Church, buttress, lancet, flying buttress, cross ribvaulting, diagonal rib vault, nave, apse, apsis, Twolight window, lancet arch | BELGIUM | LEUVEN | 5.7 / 2146 | ~ 1250 | | 26 |  | Saint Eloi's Church
Picture by Jan Boeykens (@Quernus)
Keywords:Church, Gothic, Neo-gothic, nave, vault, apse, apsis, facade, tower, flanking aisle, side aisle, altar | FRANCE | Bordeaux | 5.9 / 203 | | | 27 |  | Saint Peterchurch
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Church, Classicism, New Renaissance, Neo-gothic, glass frame, pulpit, organ, high altar, main altar, altar, flanking aisle, side aisle, tower, ribbed vault, marble, choir, chancel, sacristy, buttress, apse, apsis, sundial, sun clock, sun calendar, bay, span, bluestone, Thomas Laureis, De Pauw, Augustijnen, van Peteghem | BELGIUM | HAMME | 5.2 / 1868 | | | 28 |  | Former Dominicanes' chapel
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Chapel, Baroque, obelisk, nave, aisle, Escausine stone, Dorian colons, cartouch, gable, volute, brick, bullion (oculus), pilaster, apse, apsis, choir, chancel, Ionic capital, tabernacle, Dominicanen, Paul Collez | BELGIUM | BRAINE-LE-COMTE | 5.5 / 1702 | | | 29 |  | Saint-Barthélemy church in Zétrud-Lumay
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Church, choir, chancel, nave, apse, apsis, tower, sacristy, Belgian limestone or bluestone, flanking aisle, side aisle, baptismal font | BELGIUM | JODOIGNE | 4.6 / 2228 | | | 30 |  | Saint-Quinten's church
Picture by Jan Boeykens (@Quernus)
Keywords:Church, Grave, graveyard, nave, single-aisled, choir, chancel, bay, span, apse, apsis, high altar, main altar, wainscotting, panelwork, paneling, dado, tombstone, grave stone | BELGIUM | COUVIN | 5.4 / 1388 | | | 31 | | Sint-Laurentiuschurch
Keywords:Church, New Bysantin, Neo-Romanesque, dome-shaped roof, transept, nave, apse, apsis, brick, western tower, centralized pattern, Hendrik Jozef (Jef) Huygh | BELGIUM | ANTWERP | - | | | 32 |  | Spermalie
Picture by Jan Boeykens (@Quernus)
Keywords:Abbey, convent, monastery, Church, Late gothic, lancet, anchor, fronton, bluestone, chapter room or house, border, cartouch, cloisters, three-aisled, apse, apsis, segmental arch, cross ribvaulting, diagonal rib vault, Cistercienzers | BELGIUM | BRUGES | 5.6 / 1385 | | | 33 |  | Sainte-Croix
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Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)
Keywords:Church, Early gothic, Late Romanesque (Norman), Maas romanesque, choir, chancel, hall-church, pointed arch, western block, lancet, nave, transept, apse, apsis, driplist out of sandstone, gallery, organ, marble | BELGIUM | LIEGE | 5.3 / 2272 | ~ 1200 |
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