St. Jean Church, Selçuk, İzmir, Turkey
The sanctuary of Christianity was built by the Byzantine Emperor Great Iustinianus. Jean (St. John’s) Church is one of the greatest structures of the period. In the central part of the six-domed church, at the bottom, Hz. The closest thing to St. Paul, where Jesus delivered his mother shortly before the crucifixion of Jesus. Jean’s grave is found. St. It is rumored that Jean, after Jesus’ crucified siege, found Mother Mary in Jerusalem to be objectionable and brought him there.
Hz. Mary lived and died here in this place on Mount Bulbul until the age of 101; St. It is thought that Jean buried Mary Mother again on this mountain where no one but himself knew. After the spread of Christianity, the place where Virgin Mary was found was built as a church in the shape of a cross by Christians, and this house was declared a holy place of Christianity in 1967 by the papacy. The first Sunday after August 15, the ceremony will be held and the people will become pilgrims. To the north of the building there is a treasure room and a baptismal center.
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