The origin of the church in Turkey goes back to the events immediately following the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ in Judea. On the Day of Pentecost Jews from Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia were gathered in Jerusalem (Acts 2:9–10). Many of these became eyewitnesses […]
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Two of the four rivers in the Creation account have their source in eastern Turkey. The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers flowed through the Garden of Eden (Gen. 2:13). Some traditions suggest that this garden in which Adam and Eve lived was located in southeastern Turkey. After the […]
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Semistra seems to be the name of the first settlement of people on the Golden Horn some time during the first millennium B.C. This was at the head of the Horn where the two streams, Cydaris (Ali Bey Suyu) and Barbysus (Kâğıthane Suyu), come together. In the ninth […]
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The Seven Churches of Revelation Ephesus: Revelation 1:11; 2:1-7; Acts 18:19-28; 19:1-41; Ephesians Smyrna : Revelation 2:8-11 Pergamon : Revelation 2:12-17 Thyatira: Revelation 2:18-29; Acts 16:14 Sardis : Revelation 3:1-6 Philadelphia: Revelation 3:7-13 Laodicea : Revelation 3:14-22; Colossians 2:1; 4:13-16 The Seven Churches mentioned in The Revelation […]
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Christianity, which began as an obscure sect in Judea, survived and shaking off its Judaistic roots developed in the cosmopolitan world of Greco-Roman pagan cults. As it followed its natural path various sorts of local Christianity factions such as Donatists, Novatians, Paulinists, Marcionites, Docetists, Montanists, Meletians and […]
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Ephesus is probably the most impressive archeolo-gical site in Turkey. It must have been colonized by the Greeks not later than the tenth century B.C. although Lydians and Carians occupied the site earlier. The Greeks brought their own goddess, Artemis, with them to Ephesus. (The statues of […]
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Doves are the symbol of peace and devotion to family in Islam, a symbol of the “Holy Spirit” in Christianity. In Cappadocia, dove-cotes, are hollowed out into the upper parts of almost all the valleys and Angels’Chimneys where martens and foxes could hardly climb and feast on […]
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The Apostolic Fathers are five Early Christian authors who lived and wrote in the second half of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century. They are acknowledged as leaders in the early church, although their writings were not included in the New Testament. […]
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