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