English: The Fuentidueña Apse is part of the Fuentidueña Chapel at The Cloisters Museum in New York City. It is governed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and it is the Cloister's largest room.

When I entered it through huge oak door flanked by sculptures which include leaping animals, it took my breath away. It is a Romanesque structure built circa 1200, in Segovia, Spain. By the 19th century the St. Joan church was long abandoned and in disrepair. It was acquired by Rockefeller for the Metropolitan in 1931 to be incorporated into the Cloisters.

The chapel was removed from Segovia and rebuilt at the Cloisters in the late 1940s, a process that involved the shipment of almost 3300 blocks—mostly sandstone and limestone —from Spain to New York.

Amazingly, as old as it is, the crucifix seemed modern and without pain. The crucifix and the ceiling fresco (which resembles a mosaic), both from the same era, are from two other different Spanish church sites.