Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 160
ld seem as strange for the Early Christians to form theirchurches on the model of a basilica as it would, for instance, forthe modern Christian Scientists to pitch upon a departmentstore as the model for all their houses of worship. As for theidea of converted basilicas, that is clearly disproved… … ORIGIN OF THE CHRISTIAN BASILICA study of the buildings themselves. There is no single instanceextant where a pagan basilica has been used as a Christianchurch. Therefore, in view of all these differences (or such ofthem as were then known), Zestermann pronounced the Chris-tian basilica to be an…
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