About Cella Trichora
The Cella Trichora is an early Christian funerary chapel built around A.D. 360 in the former Roman town of Aquincum, which today lies in Budapest's Third District. The name derives from the Latin term for a three-lobed cloverleaf shape, indicating a small building with three apses. Chapels like this served as burial sites for the early Christian Roman population. The structure was discovered in 1930 and rests on the foundations of older residential buildings. Today, only the chapel's foundation walls and the surrounding Roman buildings are visible near the intersection of Raktár, Körte, and Hunor streets. A restoration carried out in 1964 merely marks the original position of the altar.
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1033 Budapest, Hungary- District
- Óbuda
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- 47.54728° N · 19.03444° E
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North side of the Raktár street once been one late-Roman Christian cemetery. There was the outskirts of the ancient Christian chapel. A typical cloverleaf-shaped building raised in around 360 CE, in memory of the martyrs and saints.
Source: Wikivoyage, „Budapest/Óbuda“ · authors per page history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · as of 3/25/2019