This project focuses on the Byzantine church’s economic roles in the coastal eastern Mediterranean from the 4th-10th centuries, a period in which Christian complexes performed many roles amidst cross-cultural movements. This dual liturgical and productive functionality lacks analysis, or has been reductively interpreted as monastic or communal resources. Ecclesiastical agricultural and artisanal installations and trade participation must be researched across a large region, including resilience and resourceful space renegotiations following upheavals (human and natural disasters, including migration). This project will gather and interpret archaeological information for church complexes of five regions across Turkey, the Levant, and the Aegean, to provide a foundational study for answering the question of the late antique church’s role in trade, and transform our understanding of resilience.