The basilica was built in the highest central area on top of the Roman period temple area partially with its materials. With this church the pagan temples of Rhodiapolis were replaced with a three-aisled basilica. The church together with the clerical rooms adjoining on the north forms the central buildings of the castrum. Thus, the settlement’s focus shifted from the central agora to the acropolis and the basilica. According to preliminary observations by E. Akyürek, the first construction phase of the church goes to the Early Byzantine period; however, finds going up to the 11th-12th centuries suggested that the settlement was inhabited until the beginning of the second millennium AD.