General description:
Basilical church with internal apse and lockable pastophoria.
Only the eastern part of the Early Church, 17 m wide, is preserved. Its west is covered by the mosque courtyard. The church in its entirety extended to the tomb of Lazarus to the west.
History:
On base of the Christian sources and the mosaic styles, the Early church is dated to the fourth century.
The church was destroyed by an earthquake at the 5th century and a Late Church was built instead of it.
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