Greek cross
Sign in to savecross with all arms of equal length and not much longer than the width
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It is catalogued under the topic Crosses by form.
Its subject is documented across 36 Wikipedia language editions.
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Christian cross variants 7th-century Byzantine solidus, showing Leontius holding a globus cruciger, with a stepped cross on the reverse side Double-barred cross symbol as used in a 9th-century Byzantine seal Greek cross (Church of Saint Sava) and extended Greek cross (St Paul's Cathedral) in church floorplans The Christian cross, with or without a figure of Christ included, is the main religious symbol of Christianity. A cross with a figure of Christ affixed to it is termed a crucifix and the figure is often referred to as the corpus (Latin for "body").
The term Greek cross designates a cross with arms of equal length, as in a plus sign, while the Latin cross designates a cross with an elongated descending arm. Numerous other variants have been developed during the medieval period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Greek cross” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.