[2] Has typological similarities with some earlier temples in Armenia and Georgia[4] The Gum basilica is one of the earliest explored monuments of the Christian period in the Georgian kingdom of Hereti.

[7] The basilica is identified with the temple built in the village of Gomenk, mentioned in the work of Moses Kalankatuysky the "History of Albania".

According to a version, the Caucasian Albania's ruler Vachagan III the Pious ordered to build this monument on the site where the Palestinian Christian missionary Elisha was murdered by fire worshipers.

[12] The T-shaped in terms of archaic internal foundations of the temple are made of rubble-concrete mass with facing square bricks.

[citation needed] The researchers of the Gum basilica restored its unpreserved ceiling in the form of a wooden one with a pitched roof truss,.