The altar is dedicated to St Peter. It was originally consecrated on 13th October 1269. The present wooden altar table, normally covered by an embroidered frontal, and reredos above it were designed ...

Over the years, it became a wooden-roofed basilica and then a domed church under the reign of Justinian I. The tomb holds ...

“The wood has proven to be in excellent ... The structure, which is positioned over the basilica’s main altar to provide a ceremonial covering for the tomb of St. Peter underneath, was ...