The church is built as a basilica church with solid Roman columns and plastered walls.
The three-naved basilica church was considered the largest church of the order in southern Germany until its closure in 1799.
The building is a three-nave basilica church with a dome over the crossing of the naves.
The glazed surfaces of the tesserae sparkled in the light and illuminated the basilica churches.
The town has a ruined Armenian basilica church said to date from the 7th century, with 13th century gravestones in its walls.
The two most prominent basilica churches so named are:
In 1936 the basilica church was being demolished to make way for apartment blocks.
A small basilica church, first founded in the 5th century, was excavated on the southern slope of the acropolis.
The late-Romanesque basilica church was probably built in the 10th-11th century, on top of an older Carolingian building.