These symbols show the deep religiosity of Gaudi, who was inspired by the contemporaneous construction of his basilica to choose the theme of the holy family.

The day following, when he was performing divine service in the basilica, the prefect of the city came to persuade him to give up at least the Portian basilica in the suburbs.

The Ark of the Covenant was said to be have been kept in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, surviving the pillages of Rome by Genseric and Alaric I but lost when the basilica burned.

The new senate-house ( or Curia ) was housed in a basilica on the east side.

The Latin word basilica ( derived from Greek, Basiliké Stoà, Royal Stoa ), was originally used to describe a Roman public building ( as in Greece, mainly a tribunal ), usually located in the forum of a Roman town.

Gregory VII was meanwhile still resisting a few hundred yards away from the basilica in the Castel San Angelo, then known as the house of Cencius.

Constantine's church was built as two connected churches over the two different holy sites, including a great basilica ( the Martyrium visited by Egeria in the 380s ), an enclosed colonnaded atrium ( the Triportico ) with the traditional site of Golgotha in one corner, and a rotunda, called the Anastasis (" Resurrection "), which contained the remains of a rock-cut room that Helena and Macarius identified as the burial site of Jesus.

The new construction was concentrated on the rotunda and its surrounding buildings: the great basilica remained in ruins.

By the crusader period, a cistern under the former basilica was rumoured to have been the location that Helena had found the True Cross, and began to be venerated as such ; although the cistern later became the Chapel of the Invention of the Cross, there is no evidence for the rumour prior to the 11th century, and modern archaeological investigation has now dated the cistern to the 11th century repairs by Monomachos.

The first basilica was completed in 360A. D.

The Hagia Sophia architects innovatively combined the longitudinal structure of a Roman basilica and the central plan of a drum-supported dome, in order to withstand the high magnitude earthquakes of the Marmara Region, “ However, in May 558, little more than 20 years after the Church ’ s dedication, following the earthquakes of August 553 and December 557, parts of the central dome and its supporting structure system collapsed .” The Hagia Sophia was repeatedly cracked by earthquakes and was quickly repaired.

A portion of the rescued relics were carried to Jerusalem, then to Alexandria, where on May 27, 395, they were laid in the basilica that was newly dedicated to the Forerunner on the former site of the temple of Serapis.

The fortress incorporates some of the pre-existing southern walls, the pre-existing structures including the keep of Santo Martini, the San Giovanni tower and an ancient basilica which now serves as the fortress chapel. Though the town itself was eventually conquered, the fortress itself was never taken, an admirable feat, considering the size of the Sienese and Florentine forces that besieged Montalcino at varying intervals.

Writing of the beauty of the Hebrew women there, he records them saying St. Mary was a relative of theirs, and notes that, " The house of St. Mary is a basilica.

Material from the ( presumably now ruined ) building was incorporated into a basilica constructed nearby during the 5th or 6th century AD.

I choose John ... a name sweet to us because it is the name of our father, dear to me because it is the name of the humble parish church where I was baptized, the solemn name of numberless cathedrals scattered throughout the world, including our own basilica John Lateran.

Such was the violence and bloodshed that the two prefects of the city were called in to restore order, and after a first setback, when they were driven to the suburbs and a massacre of 137 was perpetrated in the basilica of Sicininus ( the modern Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore ), the prefects banished Ursinus to Gaul.

Once he was securely consecrated Bishop of Rome, his men attacked Ursinus and his remaining supporters who were seeking refuge in the Liberian basilica, resulting in a massacre of 137 supporters of Ursinus.

He was buried in the catacomb of St. Priscilla where his grave is mentioned by the itineraries to the graves of the Roman martyrs as existing in the basilica of St. Silvester ( De Rossi, Roma sotterranea, I, 176 ).

Under his reign Michelangelo re-built the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli ( in the Diocletian's Baths ) and the eponymous Villa Pia, now known as Casina Pio IV and headquarters of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, was designed by Pirro Ligorio in the Vatican Gardens.

The 4th-century basilica of Ss Callixti et Iuliani was rebuilt in the 12th century by Pope Innocent II and rededicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The neighbouring Nikolaikirke is a three-aisled basilica, probably inspired by the construction of the St. Halvardskirke in Oslo.

Old St. Peter's Church ( begun about A. D. 330 ) was probably the first significant early Christian basilica, a style of church architecture that came to dominate the early Middle Ages.

Her grave, beneath the altar steps, was never marked by a monument, so its location was unknown ; probably for this reason, it was the only royal grave in the basilica that was not ransacked during the French Revolution, and it probably remains intact today.

Between this palace and the Lateran basilica was the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, which at the time was erroneously believed to represent the Christian Emperor Constantine ( which association probably accounted for its preservation ).

The most impressive buildings located at the north and south ends of the harbor include blocks of rooms near the waterfront ( probably warehouses ); fishtanks ; monumental complexes decorated with sculpted marble ( possibly sanctuaries of Aphrodite and of Isis whose cults the 2nd c. CE writer Pausanias attests at the town ), mosaic pavements, and wall-painting ( either sacred structures, lavish seaside villas, or rich public benefactions ); and a small Christian basilica.

To the Saxon period belong the tower of Earls Barton church, which stands on what is probably the mound of an old English strong-house ; the tower and other portions at Brigstock ; the ground plan and other portions at Wittering ; the remarkable tower at Barnack ; and Brixworth church, constructed in part of Roman materials, and by some believed to include part of a Roman basilica.

The forum and basilica were demolished around the middle of the 5th century when a cemetery, probably Christian, was established on the site.

During this period he probably drew some cartoons for the mosaics of Jesus blessing in the St. Helen chapel of the basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme.

Tradition states that Zeno built the first basilica in Verona, situated in the area probably occupied by the present-day cathedral.

) The mosques that were built after the conquest of Constantinople ( Istanbul ) by the Ottoman Turks in 1453, and influenced by the design of the 6th century Byzantine basilica of Hagia Sophia, had increasingly elevated and large central domes, which create a vertical emphasis that is intended to be more overwhelming ; in order to convey the divine power of Allah, the majesty of the Ottoman Sultan, and the governmental authority of the Ottoman State.

The Pilgrim of Bordeaux reports in 333: There, at present, by the command of the Emperor Constantine, has been built a basilica, that is to say, a church of wondrous beauty.

To the east of the Chapel of Saint Helena, the excavators discovered a void containing a 2nd century drawing of a Roman ship, two low walls which supported the platform of Hadrian's 2nd century temple, and a higher 4th century wall built to support Constantine's basilica.

The monastery of St. Zachary and the first ducal palace and basilica of St. Mark, as well as a walled defense ( civitatis murus ) between Olivolo and Rialto were subsequently built here.

* The Old Cathedral ( Duomo of San Corrado ) was built in the 12th – 13th centuries in Apulian-Romanesque style, using local stone on a basilica plan, a nave with two aisles divided by four central cross-shaped pilasters.

At the time the area which had been built around the basilica of San Gavino joined the fishermen's community near the port to form the new Porto Torres.

* Duomo ( Cathedral of Saint Vigilius ), a Romanesque-Gothic cathedral of the twelfth-thirteenth century, built on top of a late-Roman basilica ( viewable in an underground crypt ).

* Examples of the Romanesque basilica style are the church of Obermünster, dating from 1010, and the abbey church of St. Emmeram, built in the 13th century, remarkable as one of the few German churches with a detached bell tower.

The oldest known basilica, the Basilica Porcia, was built in Rome in 184 BC by Cato the Elder during the time he was Censor.

* Basilica Porcia: first basilica built in Rome ( 184 BC ), erected on the personal initiative and financing of the censor Marcus Porcius Cato ( Cato the Elder ) as an official building for the tribunes of the plebs

Constantine built a basilica of this type in his palace complex at Trier, later very easily adopted for use as a church.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the basilica is a mere architectural description of churches built in the ancient style.

The Ottoman Vezir Mosque ( 1856 ), built on the site of the church of St Titus, and now the basilica of St Titus.

A new basilica was built 565 CE by the Byzantine Empire, restoring the architectural tone of the original.

"[...] Theudelinda regina basilicam costruxerat, qui locus supra Mediolanum duodecim milibus abest, [...]" (" Theodelinda built a queen basilica, whose position is twelve miles from Milan ").

Cato also ordered the demolition of houses which encroached on the public way, and built the first basilica in the Forum near the Curia ( Livy, History, 39. 44 ; Plutarch, Marcus Cato, 19 ).

Many buildings in Rome that are commonly associated with Constantine, such as the great basilica in the forum Romanum, were in fact built by Maxentius.

It contains some ancient ruins, a hospital built by the Little Sisters of the Poor, and a fine basilica dedicated to St. Augustine.

Anthony is buried in a chapel within the large basilica built to honor him, where his tongue is displayed for veneration in a large reliquary.

It has been said that the reason the Pope always faced the people when celebrating Mass in St Peter's was that early Christians faced eastward when praying and, due to the difficult terrain, the basilica was built with its apse to the west.

Proclaimed basilica in 1964, it was built by Jacques Pantaléon, elected pope in 1261, under the name of Urbain IV, on grounds where the workshop of his father was.

One of the most prominent buildings is the Lambertusbasiliek, a Roman basilica built in 1890 devoted to Saint Lambert.

In the Roman period, thermae and a palaeochristian basilica were built.

* The Godehardikirche ( St. Godehard's Church ), built 1133 – 1172, a Romanesque basilica minor, which is scheduled to become an UNESCO World Heritage Site in the near future.