Early Christian Architecture:
Extended Shrines and Basilicas

Pre-Christian Roman Basilicas in Rome

Basilica of Maxentius/Constantine c. 310                  Trajan's Ulpian Basilica, c. 120 
Trier, Basilica, c.310

 
Fourth-century Christian Basilicas in Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Rome

Bethlehem, Church of Nativity, 340
Bethlehem, Church of Nativity, 340
Jerusalem, Holy Sepulchre Church

Jerusalem, Holy Sepulchre Church
Jerusalem, Golgotha: Original basilica

Rome, S. Paul's Basilica, view of nave

Rome, San Sebastiano, c. 313

Rome, St. Peter's, section based on below
Rome, S. Peter's shrine under the basilica

Rome, S. Peter's Basilica, original plan
Rome, Old St. Peter's, 16th c. fresco
Rome, S. Peter's  in 6th century

Rome, St. John Lateran, original plan
Rome, St. John Lateran, 17th c.
Rome, St. John Lateran, view

Rome, Ss. Peter and Marcelinus, c. 370		 Rome, San Lorenzo Outside the Walls.  Built between  570-90, the presbyterium is two-tiered, with an upper gallery.
Rome, San Lorenzo, triumphal arch mosaics

Rome, Santa Sabina Church, 422-432

Rome, Santa Sabina, nave view to apse
Rome, Sta. Sabina, view across nave		 Rome, Sta. Sabina, exterior from rear

Rome, Santa Sabina, carved wooden doors dating for the later 4th century, includes on of the earliest crucifixion scenes extant.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Rome, Sta. Sabina door panels:
Left: Jesus' Miracles          Right:  Moses
Rome, Sta. Sabina, Crucifixion
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