Philadelphia, Sardis, and Thyatira

If you would like to read in the Bible where we were today read Revelation 2:18 - 3:13.

It is three of the 7 letters to the churches in this area written by John who was imprisoned for not worshipping the emperor.


This is Philadelphia. Well, what used to be Philadelphia. This is a city block where they have done some excavation. The current city is on top of the old Roman city. When they dig out for a new building they always find pieces of a wall or statues. Turkey has 40,000 of these sites most of which are not excavated. 40,000! They are everywhere. This is one of the big surprises about Turkey. The other surprise is the people of Turkey, they are wonderful. Turkey is a total surprise.



This is a Jewish Synagogue in Sardis, the second city we visited of the 7 cities in the book of Revelation. The Synagogue was beautiful.


It had beautiful mosaics on the floor!


This is the gymnasium in Sardis.


Thyatira was another site mostly covered by the current city. There were however a couple of turtles there to greet us.

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Dave and Karen