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In the opening chapters of Revelation, the risen Christ dictates letters to seven churches in the Roman province of Asia, in what is now western Turkey.
They are Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamon, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea. Each received words of praise, warning or encouragement.
Today their sites range from great ruins, like Ephesus and Pergamon, to quieter remains set among the towns and countryside of the Aegean region.
The letters to the seven churches are among the most searching words in the New Testament, spoken by Christ himself to real congregations, each with its own strengths and failings.
Pilgrims travel between them to hear those letters read on the ground that first received them, and to ask the question each church was asked, whether the love, the faith and the endurance are still alive. It is a journey into the conscience of the early church.
Which are the seven churches? Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamon, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.
Where are they? In western Turkey, the old Roman province of Asia.
Where are they in the Bible? In Revelation chapters 2 and 3.
Holy Sites
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