Basilican Sentence Examples

There are many early rock-cut churches in Abyssinia, closely resembling the Coptic. After these, two main types of architecture are found - one basilican, the other native.

The cathedral at Axum is basilican, though the early basilicas are nearly all in ruins - e.g.

The basilican nave is wide, with narrow aisles.

In the central apse at Monreale, behind the high altar, is a fine marble throne for the archbishop. This position of the throne is a survival of the early basilican arrangement, when the apse and altar were at the west end.

But the ground plan is that of an early Christian church of the " basilican " type.

The upper church is basilican in form, the nave being, as customary in Coptic churches, divided into three sections by wooden screens, which are adorned by carvings in ivory and wood.

The chapel is basilican; in it and in another building in the necropolis are crude frescoes of biblical subjects.

Many Byzantine churches, both cruciform and basilican, have been excavated.

The city has a well-built and substantial appearance, its chief attraction lying in the numerous churches, which belong in the main to a well-marked basilican type, and present almost too richly decorated exteriors, fine apsidal ends and quadrangular campaniles, in some cases with battlemented summits, and windows increasing in number as they ascend.