Les églises doubles d'Afrique du Nord

The double churches from North Africa are not numerous, but rather well studied. It is not the case with Seriana in Algeria (three parallel churches?), nor with Mechta el Tein (Numidia, omitted by Sodini in his inventory), nor with lunca in Tunisia (the second church, rather far from the first, is not a baptistery). Djemila (certainly cathedral): the author is not convinced by Fevrier's hypothesis of a homogeneous monument for the two churches with mosaics assigned to the 5'h and 6'h centuries. Perhaps the eastern facade has been rebuilt. Sbeitla: the first catholic cathedral has been replaced (in the begining of the 6th century?) by a larger one (and the baptistery moved) but was still used with the same liturgical equipment. Bulla Regia (presumably cathedral): in the Byzantine times, the main church was rebuilt with an inverted axis and a smaller church added. Sabratha: after the big earthquake of the second half of the 4:h century, two churches (contemporaneous?) were built on the ruins of two public monuments; there were two (?) successive baptisteries. The double church was probably the cathedral or one of the different cathedrals (catholic, donatist or arian?). Ksar el Baroud (cathedral of the ancient Thamaguta, east of Sbeitla, recently excavated): a large oriented church was replaced by two opposite churches and a baptistery, with a parallel funerary (?) church. A few cases of perpendicular churches, independant (Setif, end of 4th century) or linked to the main church (Timgad, western group), could be added, even if their use is badly known.