Ancient church discovered in western Turkey

Hurriyet Daily News ^ | Monday, January 31, 2011 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Culture and Tourism Minister Ertuğrul Günay visited the ancient city of Laodicea on Sunday in Denizli province and was briefed by Professor Celal Simsek, head of the excavation team. The professor said they have discovered the Laodicea Church, one of the seven mentioned in the Bible. Simsek said the church from the fourth century A.D. was found by underground radar search, a system they have tried this year for the first time. "The major part of the church, which is built on an area of 2,000 square meters, has kept its original [status]."

...The minister said the church added to the already present historical richness of the ancient city and said he was happy that important sites other than Ephesus are coming into the spotlight. According to the minister, the baptismal pool at the Laodicea Church is even more exciting than the one at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

[SunkenCiv]

Culture Minister Eruğrul Günay (L) visits the ancient city of Laodicea in the Aegean province of Denizli. AA photo

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[Domangart]

If you have only one place to see this area is the best. The seven churches of the Revelation are a sight to see. One of them is a little far and not much to see. I think that church was replaced by a Bacila. Earthquakes tend to move things around. One of them is build inside a temple.. The barrel has “First you rebuild me” carved on it's side.

[Mr. Jazzy]

Ok, well then how long will it be before the muslims take the site over and turn it into another mosque?

[eleni121]

Anotehr riduculous obscene “news” story from one of the few remaining Islamofascist regimes in the world

I guess it was those wondrous “ancient” turks that built the church. Who could it have been??? HMMMM

In the meantime I wonder why the bumbling barbaric turks bombed and burned so many others?

Whle we’re at it - what happened to those 4 million Christian Greeks Armenians and Assyrians that used to live there?

[hapnHal]

Great News

Something to read:
Lost Books of the Bible, Bell Publishing

Lost Books contains: The Epistile of Paul to the Laodiceans. The Quakers have printed a translation and a very old translation of this Epistile may be found in the British Museum, among the Harleian MSS, Cod 1212

St Paul the Apostle quotes in Epistile

11 For it is God who worketh in you;

12 And do all things without sin.

13 And what is best my belovid, rejoice inthe Lord Jesus Christ, and avoid all filthy lucre.

14 Let all your requests be made known to God, and be steady in the doctine of Christ.

[I still care]

“the baptismal pool at the Laodicea Church is even more exciting than the one at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul”

And we all know what they did to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

[ApplegateRanch]

Imam wanted for newly refurbished Turkish mosque, re-opening soon!

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[TigersEye]

That’s pretty cool. But I wouldn’t walk under that lintel.

[eleni121]

And we all know what they did to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul..

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Haghia Sophia was lucky in a sense---it survived. Many thousands of churches that once dotted the landscape of Asia minor did not - including this heartbreaking destruction - the Church of the Dormition in Nicaea - which was destroyed by the Turks in 1922 - destroyed utterly and deliberately by the vandal Turks:

Nothing left-- this is a photo of it in the late 1900s - it was destroyed in 1922 - just about when Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and Lenin were combining their forces of darkness to destroy Christianity

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Well we live in a Laodicean age, neither hot nor cold. Appropriate they would find this arhchelolgical sight.

[colorado tanker]

Laodicea was near Colossae and Hierapolis.

[rawhide]

That is a good map. I just finished reading the book of Acts and I recognize many of the places on that map. I saved that map to my computer for future reference. Thanks.

[colorado tanker]

Your welcome.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[eleni121]

Not 1900s. Actually the photo is from the late 1800s...it was blown up in 1922.

Holy Mother bless us today on your ascension to Heaven.