Shkoder / Kalaja e Rozafës / Kalaja e Shkodrës / Rozafa Catle / Shkodër / Shkodra
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ruine der kath. Kathedrale Sankt Stephan (früher: Moschee) auf der Burg Rozafa bei Shkoder"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sigismund von Dobschütz, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2011 by Sigismund von Dobschütz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burg_Rozafa_19.JPG] [accessed 5 October 2023]
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view of object in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Baptismal font, Rozafa Castle, Skhodra, Albania" [NB: more likely a well-head, perhaps Venetian made]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian Chicester, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 2023 by Julian Chicester, in Bridgeman Images [https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-US/julian-chichester/cathedral-at-rozafa-castle-skhodra-albania-photo/colour-photograph/asset/746196] [accessed 5 October 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24973SKH
Church/Chapel: [Church of St. Stephen] [Fatih Sultan Mehmet Mosque]
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: Rruga Rozafa, Shkodër, Albania
Country Name: Albania
Location: Shkodër, Northern Albania
Directions to Site: Located off (S) highway E762, on the E bank of the Buna river, in the SE tip of the Skhodra lake, about 40 km N of Tirana
Font Location in Church: Located in the grounds of the castle site
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this object to our attention
Church Notes: the castle was built on an original (13thC?) church dedicated to St. Stephen; Ottomans re-built it as Fatih Sultan Mehmet Mosque
A large stone object that has a square top and a rounded underbowl, stands on a circular plinth; it has been described in some sources a baptismal font, but it more likely to have been originally a well-head. A church had been built here by the Venitians, and the object resembles some of the Venitian well-heads of the period [late-medieval?]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.0464,
19.4931
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 2′ 47.04″ N,
19° 29′ 35.16″ E
UTM: 34T 375291 4656026
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square