Come and Experience the Cradle of Christianity.
Ken Grubb is a retired Special Agent of the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) and an adjunct instructor at the University of Maryland. He has lived in Türkiye for over twenty years, researching and writing about Türkiye’s ancient Christian sites. He now helps churches organize group tours to visit these sites.
There are around 3,000 cave churches in Cappadocia. They range from simple, undecorated spaces to elaborate, deep, cathedral-like churches with interiors covered in magnificent frescoes of biblical scenes, characters, and…
A hippodrome is an ancient Greek stadium used for horse and chariot racing. The word comes from the Greek “hippodromus,” combining the words “hippos” (horse) and “dromos” (course). The Romans…
Pisidian Antioch was an important city and military base during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. It was in the Roman Province of Pisidia, in southwestern Asia Minor (today’s Türkiye). To…
The Göreme Open Air Museum is a theater-shaped valley surrounded by steep cliffs. Its walls contain cave churches and a monastery complex. It is the best place to see multiple…
In my opinion, Istanbul is the most fascinating city in the world because of its deep history, which goes back to Constantine the Great’s founding of Constantinople as the new…