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1500-year-old church found under Turkish lake
cathnews ^ | January 30, 2014

Posted on 01/31/2014 1:34:36 PM PST by NYer

1500 years old

A Byzantine church has been discovered underneath Lake İznik in Bursa, a province known as one of the most significant places in Turkey for Christians, reports Today's Zaman.

The church is assumed to be St Peter's Church, which appears in many different sources of Christian history, although no evidence to support that has yet been found. Mustafa Şahin, chair of Uludağ University's department of archeology, said detailed research is being undertaken by Turkish experts on Byzantine history.

'We will share the findings with the public as soon as we get detailed information,' Şahin said. The church has been named one of the most important sources for research in the area. Very rigorous research is under way right now to help the church come above ground and out of the lake.

According to the information attained so far, the church consists of three corridors and has the layout of a basilica. This kind of construction was generally in vogue during the Roman period and was used in courthouse buildings. In A.D. 313, when Christianity was accepted as the official religion of the empire, practicing Christians started to use the basilica layout for churches as well.

The site extends from east to west and has been determined to be a church building because there is an apsis in the east corner of the building in addition to the fact that basilica floor plans were commonly found in churches, Şahin explained.

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1,500-year-old historic church found under Turkish lake (Today's Zaman)

Byzantine Church Found in Turkish Lake (Archaeology)

 



TOPICS: Catholic; History; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: ancientchurch; byzantine; godsgravesglyphs; turkey
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To: Ciexyz
This could be our nation 1500 years in the future, when future residents dig St. Patrick’s Cathedral out of the rubble and Washington’s National Cathedral, too. They’ll say, gee it looks like those people were once Christians.

They'll find them underneath all of the Obama temples.

21 posted on 01/31/2014 6:40:59 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: SunkenCiv

What AWESOME ruins! Thanks, Sunk!


22 posted on 01/31/2014 6:44:44 PM PST by Monkey Face (Getting old sucks. I used to wake up feeling like a million bucks. Now I feel like a bounced check.)
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To: holden

Just like what happens here, out West, when you have a population of some “endangered species” overrunning your place. Talk about it and you’ll be crushed by alphabet agencies for the rest of your days. These people probably just want to be left alone.


23 posted on 01/31/2014 6:52:45 PM PST by kitchen (Even the walls have ears.)
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To: NYer; a fool in paradise

Those crazy Turks (who renamed Constantinople to New Amsterdam, did I get that piece of musical history right?), and now we learn they built a church under a lake!


24 posted on 01/31/2014 6:55:08 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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To: NYer

Interesting and I wasn’t aware that basilicas were a standard design of the Roman government.


25 posted on 01/31/2014 7:01:36 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: SuziQ

Sure it would! All that extra heat has evaporated the water.

OTOH, I want to know how it was flooded in the first place.


26 posted on 01/31/2014 9:13:44 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: NYer

Good find. Can’t wait to hear and see what they find there.


27 posted on 01/31/2014 9:44:04 PM PST by redleghunter
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To: Thane_Banquo

Good one. Now the Baptists will love you.


28 posted on 01/31/2014 9:46:43 PM PST by redleghunter
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To: Revolting cat!; SunkenCiv; Daffynition

“When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.”


29 posted on 02/01/2014 5:51:23 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: NYer

I guess the parishioners all used snorkels?


30 posted on 02/01/2014 5:53:36 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Thane_Banquo
I wonder if they practiced baptism by immersion....

Why are you kidding? :-) Byzantine Christians absolutely baptize by immersion (and only by immersion), although their version of "immersion" in the case of adults may not make it to your standards, since they're usually immersing in a large bathtub-like tank in the church, not in a lake or swimming pool.

Here's a video for you (but you have to get approximately to the middle of the video to see the actual "getting wet" part of the baptism).

31 posted on 02/01/2014 6:33:33 AM PST by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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To: 1010RD

They were, but the nation’s schools don’t teach history any longer, they indoctrinate children with Marxist agitprop; also the basilica is now associated with Christianity (more specifically, Catholicism) and that’s off-limits too.


32 posted on 02/01/2014 6:51:21 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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Turkey: a 1500-year-old basilica discovered in Lake Iznik

Turkey: a 1500-year-old basilica discovered in Lake Iznik

33 posted on 02/01/2014 6:57:12 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: SunkenCiv

You point out a real tragedy when truth is the first casualty of dogma - left or right. When we lose the fight for truth nothing else really matters does it?

Thanks for all you do. I appreciate it very much and know that others do too. Your insights and knowledge are invaluable and I’ve shared what I’ve learned with others. Your influence is broader than you might realize.


34 posted on 02/01/2014 6:59:22 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: a fool in paradise

Swamp. Sounds like you’re talkin’ about DC, right? Too many swampthings to count.


35 posted on 02/01/2014 7:46:40 AM PST by Daffynition ("If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." ~ Henry Ford)
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To: SunkenCiv

That looks like Noah’s Ark to me....who ya kiddin’?


36 posted on 02/01/2014 7:50:26 AM PST by Daffynition ("If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." ~ Henry Ford)
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To: NYer

Turkish experts on Byzantium-—laughable... considering the Muslim Turks have burned bombed looted flooded destroyed every thing Christian they could find including the original Christian inhabitants of Asia Minor. Iznik is really Nicaea where another Basilica was dynamited by the Islamic hordes under Kemal in 1923: The Dormition of the Holy Mother, where the Holy Fathers of the Church wrote the Nicaean Creed in 325 AD.


37 posted on 02/01/2014 11:13:54 AM PST by eleni121 ("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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To: Daffynition

:’)


38 posted on 02/01/2014 6:47:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: 1010RD

Thanks!


39 posted on 02/01/2014 6:48:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Revolting cat!

Istanbul Not Constantinople

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vankaSlfSr0


40 posted on 02/02/2014 8:23:14 AM PST by Bigg Red (O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Ps 8)
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