Basilica
originally the hall or the chiefs who formed his council. When the Christian religion was made the state arrangement of that portion of the inings were given up to the new sect; the religion in Rome many of these buildterior where the official business was conducted easily lending itself to the ings were given up to the new sect; the BASILICATA basilicas in Rome, e. g., in the subterranean Church of San Clemente, the early development of the Christian arrangement from the Roman is still to be seen. Many of the oldest and most splendid of the Roman churches are built on the plan of the basilica, and are called basilicas in consequence.