Messina No. 2 / Messana / Μεσσήνη / Missina
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view of church exterior - apse
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2009 by sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maria_Santissima_Annunziata_dei_Catalani_(Messina)_03.JPG] [accessed 20 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - northeast end
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 June 2009 by sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maria_Santissima_Annunziata_dei_Catalani_(Messina)_00.JPG] [accessed 20 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Effems, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 March 2018 by Effems [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ME_Catalani_2013_02_01_01.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
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view of church exterior - west portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Messina: porta della chiesa di Sant’Annunziata de Catalani (xilografia di Barberis 1892)."
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Image Source: digital image of a 1892 woodcut by Barberis in Gustavo Strafforello's La patria, geografia dell'Italia / Parte 5. Italia insulare: Sicilia (Torino: Unione Tipografico-Editrice, 1893) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messina_porta_della_chiesa_di_Sant’Annunziata_de_Catalani_(xilografia_di_Barberis_1892).jpg] [accessed 20 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 June 2009 by sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maria_Santissima_Annunziata_dei_Catalani_(Messina)_05.JPG] [accessed 20 April 2019]
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view of church interior - ceiling - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Effems, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 February 2017 by Effems [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ME_Catalani_03.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2019]
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view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Elena Mendirichaga, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken in April 2019 by Elena Mendirichaga
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 April 2019)
view of stoup in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Elena Mendirichaga, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken in April 2019 by Elena Mendirichaga
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 April 2019)
INFORMATION
FontID: 22100MES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata dei Catalani
Church Patron Saints: The Annunciation to St. Mary
Church Location: Via G. Garibaldi, 111, 98122 Messina ME, Italy -- Tel.: : +39 090 668 4111
Country Name: Italy
Location: Messina, Sicilia
Directions to Site: Located in the town centre, between via Cesare Battisti and via Garibaldi, just W of the harbour
Ecclesiastic Region: Arcidiocesi di Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Elena Mendirichaga for her photographs of the re-cycled stoup here
Church Notes: original Byzantine period church probably built on the site of a temple to Neptune; became a mosque in the Arab domination; re-built by the Normans in the 12th-13thC; modified through the centuries
Font Notes:
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[NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-13th century church here or the one from the original Byzantine temple]. The church uses as a large re-cycled capital as holy-water stoup.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 38.19125, 15.55625
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 38° 11′ 28.5″ N, 15° 33′ 22.5″ E
UTM: 33S 548710 4227181