First cave Christian temple of Eastern Europe of the first gothic campaigns eras of the III century ad. (on materials of the cave monastery Chilter-Koba in the Crimea)

In the I-Todor underground temple cave monastery Chilter-Koba in the Crimea is the throne of the ancient type (up to 692) adjacent to the inner wall of the apse, which consists of a flow-through systems: the cup-shaped cavities and pouring chute. Near the cave is located near the complex Chilter-Koba the sacred source of Khor Khor, discovered a stone with a similar system running grooves connected by heavy grooves, as is evident, as is a remote throne. In these thrones is not a hole in the Menza (in the plate surface of the throne), as in the three oldest thrones early Byzantine Jerusalem: Church of the Nativity of the Virgin underground, and in the aisles and the Prison of Christ Calvary Church of the Holy Sepulchre, according to Church tradition set by Helen Augusta (326-332 years.). Thrones Chilter-Koba have a close analogy in the monuments of III- IV centuries. As an underground temple Saba Cave near Jerusalem, where the depth - in the form of the foot, attributed to John the Baptist, and the diamond-shaped cross-shaped in terms of deepening-cup, and pouring spout connected to form flow-through system. This was the intended successor to the ancient liturgy, for spilling wine on the feast of the surface during preosuschestvleniya fluid in the blood of Christ. Since the beginning of lying on a nearby spur Syuyrenskoy castle belongs to the III-IV centuries., And Christianity appears on the shores of Tauris, along with prisoners from Cappadocia, in the Gothic Wars (hiking through the Bosporus and 275 and 264 years.), Include the formation of liturgical devices cave complex Chilter-Koba was at this time.