Sentence examples for Roman basilica from inspiring English sources

The Roman basilica became the Christian church.

Otherwise, head out to Trier to visit the Roman basilica and baths.

The Roman basilica, the focus for commerce and government, stood where the Leadenhall Market stands.

"The next summer our dig led to the discovery of a Roman basilica.

The earliest churches were based on the plan of the pagan Roman basilica, or hall of justice.

All Saints was designed on the model of a Roman basilica, a hall with a nave and aisles.

The Sicily of Roger II and his successors, William I and William II, became a meeting place of cultures: Byzantine vestments were embroidered with Arabic lettering and worn by Anglo-Norman kings; the typical Roman basilica-style building was given a new switch by being capped with pink-colored Greek cupolas and decorated with pointed Arabic arches derived from Islamic mosques.

Let our champions of the past build their updated Greek temples and Roman basilicas and baths.

This huge building, the greatest of the Roman basilicas, covered about 7,000 square yards (5,600 square m) and included a central nave that was 265 feet (80 m) long and 83 feet (25 m) wide.

The term is sometimes applied to any second-floor gallery opening onto a higher nave by means of arcades or colonnades, like the galleries in many ancient Roman basilicas or Byzantine churches.

Completed during the reign of Macrinus in the early 3rd century, it is one of the finest Roman basilicas in Africa and is probably modelled on the one at Leptis Magna in Libya.