I present to you the Temple of the First Council of Nicea (Turkey)

in inglish •  5 years ago 

Hello, as you are all I hope you are spending it excellent in this wonderful and unique day that we have had the prelude to enjoy and be able to be here with you sharing a new publication, in this case I will talk about another sunken church in another place in the world as is the Temple of the First Council of Nicea of ​​Turkey.

At one point in 2004, the government related some aerial shots where these photographs showed that there was the structure of a church under the waters of Lake Iznik.

Archaeologists at Bursa Uludag University are currently working on the ruins, which are approximately 50 meters from the shore and at a depth of no less than only 3 meters.


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In this temple it has the function of a Byzantine-style Christian basilica consecrated and founded by a martyr Saint Neophyte, who was executed in this place in 303. The temple was destroyed and destroyed some centuries later by an earthquake.

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