The Basilica of Santa Sabina all’Aventino, one of the oldest churches in Rome, has a new illumination system that literally sheds new light on the most ancient elements of its architecture.
Built in the early 5th century near the Temple of Juno Regina on the Aventine Hill in Rome, Santa Sabina is the oldest basilica in Rome that retains its original design of a Roman secular basilica (a building used for public functions like courts of law and assemblies), in other words a rectangular plan with a colonnaded central nave, aisles on each side and a semi-circular apse. Its 24 columns were taken from the Temple of Juno Regina. It has its original wood door with carved panels from 430 A.D., including one of the earliest surviving depictions of the crucifixion of Christ which is the first known crucifixion to be publicly displayed. Above the door inside the church is the original mosaic inscription in Latin hexameter.
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