Church of San Juan Apóstol y Evangelista, Santianes de Pravia

Church of St. John Apostle and Evangelist Iglesia de San Juan Apóstol y Evangelista (in Spanish)
Religion
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Province	Asturias
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	Church
Location
Location	Santianes de Pravia, Spain
Interactive map of Church of St. John Apostle and Evangelist Iglesia de San Juan Apóstol y Evangelista (in Spanish)
Coordinates	43°30′07.02″N 6°05′56.92″W
Architecture
Type	Church
Style	Pre-Romanesque
Groundbreaking	774
Completed	783
Website
Official Website

St. John Apostle and Evangelist (Spanish: Iglesia de San Juan Apóstol y Evangelista) is a Roman Catholic Asturian pre-Romanesque church situated in Santianes de Pravia, northern Spain.

Cultural references

Foundation stone in the form of a letter labyrinth: Silo princeps fecit

Painting of Salvador Dalí inspired by the foundation stone

The church contains a foundation stone in the form of a letter labyrinth ("Silo Princeps Fecit") that records the 8th-century founding of the church by King Silo of Asturias. The inscription Silo princeps fecit singularly combined in fifteen horizontal lines and nineteen perpendicular columns of letters. The T forms the beginning and the end of the first and last line in consequence of which the name Silo is not to be found till the eighth line and the S which begins it is exactly in the centre of that line and of the tenth column thus the name is in the shape of a cross as the letters above below and on each side of the S form the word Silo.

This letter labyrinth appears to inspire the hypercube of Salvador Dalí's painting A Propos of the "Treatise on Cubic Form" by Juan de Herrera, housed in the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.

See also

• Asturian architecture
• Catholic Church in Spain

External links

• https://archive.org/details/moslemarchitectu00rivouoft