Church of St. John Bogoslov

On a natural platform, upon a world of crags above Lake Ohrid – or the White Lake as it was befittingly called in the middle ages – the church dedicated to the evangelist St. John the theologian stands on the most beautiful of the town’s spots, known today as Kaneo. Built in the form of a cross inscribed in a rectangle, it has a single dome with a peculiar roof cornice that rather than being flat or undulating, as would be usual, makes angled tympanums, which is a unique example in the broader area of the central Balkans. The earliest fresco-paintings, dated to around 1290, have been preserved in the apse of the dome, while the naos contains fragments of the Passion scenes.