Santa Maria in Cosmedin. The Basilica of Saint Mary in Cosmedin is a minor basilica church in Rome, Italy.
It is located in the rione of Ripa. According to Byzantine historian Andrew Ekonomou, the church was founded in the 6th century during the Byzantine rule of the city and was placed in the centre of the Greek community in Rome.
The Greek part of the city was referred to as the 'Schola Graeca'. The church was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, who was greatly adored as Theotokos in contemporary Constantinople.
The name 'Cosmedin' came from the Latinization of the Greek word that derives from the Greek word, which means pure or elegant. The church was built in the 8th century, during the Byzantine Papacy, over the remains of the Templum Herculis Pompeiani in the Forum Boarium and of the Statio annonae, one of the food distribution centres of ancient Rome.
A deaconry was a place where charitable distributions were given to the poor, and it is appropriate that such an institution would have been built near or at a station of the Roman annona. An eighth century inscription in the church records that Eustathius, the last Byzantine duke of Rome gave a gift of extensive properties to the church's ministry to the poor. The same inscription also mentions a donation by someone named Georgios and his brother David Since it was located near many Byzantine structures, in 7th century this church was called de Schola G
It is located in the rione of Ripa. According to Byzantine historian Andrew Ekonomou, the church was founded in the 6th century during the Byzantine rule of the city and was placed in the centre of the Greek community in Rome.
The Greek part of the city was referred to as the 'Schola Graeca'. The church was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, who was greatly adored as Theotokos in contemporary Constantinople.
The name 'Cosmedin' came from the Latinization of the Greek word that derives from the Greek word, which means pure or elegant. The church was built in the 8th century, during the Byzantine Papacy, over the remains of the Templum Herculis Pompeiani in the Forum Boarium and of the Statio annonae, one of the food distribution centres of ancient Rome.
A deaconry was a place where charitable distributions were given to the poor, and it is appropriate that such an institution would have been built near or at a station of the Roman annona. An eighth century inscription in the church records that Eustathius, the last Byzantine duke of Rome gave a gift of extensive properties to the church's ministry to the poor. The same inscription also mentions a donation by someone named Georgios and his brother David Since it was located near many Byzantine structures, in 7th century this church was called de Schola G
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