Editing Nicaea (section)

===Church of the Dormition===
[[File:Church of the Dormition in Nicaea.jpg|thumb|Church of the Dormition in Nicaea.]]

The Church of the Dormition, the principal Greek Orthodox church in Nicaea, was one of the most architecturally important Byzantine churches in [[Asia Minor]]. A domed church with a cross-shaped nave and elongated apse, and dating from the perhaps as early as the end of the 6th century, its bema was decorated with very fine mosaics that had been restored in the 9th century. The Church of the Dormition was destroyed by the Turks in 1922; only the lower portions of some of its walls survive today.<ref name=Mango90>Cyril Mango, "Byzantine Architecture", p. 90.</ref>