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Location

  • Lebanon, Baalbek
  • geo:34.007004,36.204266

Period or year

  • 400~ / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Baalbek, Christian Basilica

data access 69262

The ruins of basilica church in front of the Jupiter temple discovered by German expedition was built at the end of the fourth or the beginnig of the fifth century. It was made of  stones from the damaged  Jupiter temple and was oriented as Pagan temples i.e . with the aps at west and the main entrance at the east. This was three-aisled church.

See:

  1. Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, pp. 72-74

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2020-12-16) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/69262
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Baalbek, Christian Basilica. https://vici.org/vici/69262, accessed 2026-11-09.