Pridrazi - Sv. Martina

Sv. Martina, the church dedicated to St. Martin of Tours, is surrounded by a graveyard. The single nave church with three apses may have erected within the 10th century (some scholars say 6th). It got severely damaged, when it got shelled twice by the Serbian artillery during the Croatian War of Independence in the first half of the 1990s. Meanwhile the church is rebuilt.

Excavated next to the church are the foundations of a octogonal baptisterium. This may be indeed date back to the 6th century. The location seems unusual. The baptisterium maybe older than the church.

In most places I saw so far the baptisterium was located west of the church, as only baptised persons could enter the church through the (western) portals. Still today baptismal fonts are placed mostly in the western part of a church.