Cappadocia: A Refuge in the Rock Shelters

Watch the eleventh episode of the series, The Quest for Answers: Looking for the First Followers of Christ in Turkey. In this eleventh show, we visit the region in Turkey known as Cappadocia.
In Cappadocia, the early Christians seeking sanctuary from the Romans, and, later still, Muslim raiders, found refuge in the rock shelters and began to connect the chimney formations with subterranean villages. When invaders did arrive, Christians are believed to have slipped down through holes in the ground and remained there until the danger passed. Within the layers of structures, both above and below ground, they had constructed churches, storehouses, homes, and passageways.

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