Noun
Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.
A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached.
A church building of the earlier centuries of Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary distinction.
A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century.
Source: Webster's dictionarythe church was raised to the rank of basilica Source: Internet
According to chronicler Leo of Ostia the Greek artists decorated the apse, the arch and the vestibule of the basilica. Source: Internet
According to the notice in the Liber Pontificalis, Felix erected a basilica on the Via Aurelia ; the same source also adds that he was buried there. Source: Internet
After Christianity became the official religion, the basilica shape was found appropriate for the first large public churches, with the attraction of avoiding reminiscences of the Greco-Roman temple form. Source: Internet
A Christian basilica of the 4th or 5th century stood behind its entirely enclosed forecourt ringed with a colonnade or arcade, like the stoa or peristyle that was its ancestor or like the cloister that was its descendant. Source: Internet
A man and a woman died at the Basilica of Notre-Dame, in the heart of the Mediterranean resort city, while a third person succumbed to injuries after seeking refuge in a nearby bar, a police source told AFP. Source: Internet