The toponym Crkvište (Manastir) - Palikurska Bazilika is located 800 m to the North-West of the village of Palikura, on the left (Eastern) bank of the Crna Reka and 1,4 km to the South-West of the ancient town of Stobi. An Early Christian basilica was discovered there in 1916. Karl Hald's report on the discovery of the basilica in Palikura during the First World War is gripping. He writes that a German road construction company was stationed in Palikura and had the task of building roads in the area. These pioneers noticed a pile of rubble in the area from which a marble column protruded. Neither a German landowner in Palikura named Jakob Zeisset (1861-1937), who had lived in the area for 33 years at the time and on whose land the pile of rubble was located, nor the other villagers could provide any information about it. So the German Field Marshal August von Mackensen (1849-1945) personally ordered the column to be dug up. The German soldiers then discovered a three-aisled basilica at a depth of 2 to 2,5 metres, which was documented by Hald in a drawing. It is a three-aisled basilica with a narthex (4th-6th century, five columns separate the nave from the aisles, mosaic floor, marble architectural elements, four adjoining rooms in the East, one of which is octagonal, therefore possibly a baptistery, tombs from the 4th to 6th century).
Furthermore, around 50 metres to the North-East of the basilica, traces of a medieval cemetery with grave goods (9th/10th-13th century, mainly from the 12th century, jewellery), around the remains of a Late Roman building (horreum?), were found. The local memory of the German landowner Zeisset lives on to this day. His former house (now in ruins) in the village square of Palikura and the foundations of his dam and mill on the banks of the Crna Reka can still be seen.