Turkey is a very important Bible land but many Christians do not know that.

Rather Israel is considered the Holy Land because it is the land that Jesus lived and died, and the church began in Jerusalem. 

But soon after Jesus’ death, the gospel spread northward to Antioch, a city located in southeastern Turkey.

For the following 1000 years, the land of Turkey became the center for the growing Christian movement and Turkey has been the site of many

of the most crucial events in the history of Christianity. 

Two-thirds of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament were either written to or from Asia Minor. 

Here, the followers of Jesus were first called ‘’Christians’’ (Acts 11:26) in Antioch-on-the-Orontes.

The three great apostles Paul, Peter, and John have all laid the foundation stones of churches in Asia Minor.