18/08/2026
Before it was a book of Revelation, it was seven real letters — sent to seven real communities. 📖
Ephesus. Smyrna. Pergamum. Thyatira. Sardis. Philadelphia. Laodicea.🏛
A quick note on the name: these are called "churches," but not because there were church buildings there — there weren't. The Greek word is "ekklesia," meaning a gathered community, a congregation of believers meeting in homes. What still stands today isn't a church structure — it's the city itself: its streets, its ruins, the place where that community actually lived.
All seven cities still stand across western Türkiye today — some as UNESCO-listed ruins, some buried beneath modern cities that grew right over them!
Swipe through to see where each letter was first read, and what it meant.
We build tailor-made journeys that connect all seven — history, archaeology, and 3,000 years of layered civilization in one trip.
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