The cupola rests on pendentive like arches. The "mandapa" with its beautiful pendentive and the pillars and lintels of the portico. The pendentive was lifted again by chains. However, the latter has a pendentive below each squinch. With the lifting of the pendentive, the central part of the church was rounded off. Pendentive of the building is built like muqarnas. A prime example of this is Michelangelo's pendentive of Judith in the Sistine Chapel. The church has a three bay nave, and a pendentive dome. A stone pendentive dome is known from a first century BC bath in Petra.