Faith Tours / Half day

Adult Price	:	35 $
Child Price	:	30 $
(6 to 12 years old)
Group Price	:	30 $
(6 to 10 people)

Groups greater than 10 pax please email to us.

Includes a visit to House Virgin Mary and attending a ritual ceremony (Usually Sundays) and visiting basilica of Saint John holy church. It is thought to be constructed during IV.

Century A. D. Of this place, also named as "Panaya Kapulu" by Christians on 420 meters high Mount Bülbül, which is nine kilometers away from Seljuk.

On the niche part, which remembers an oven, precious heart of Jesus Christ is represented. Such before the crucifixion, Jesus Christ entrusted his mother to his friend and disciples.

As St. Jean thought that to stay in Jerusalem would be dangerous for Virgin Mary after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, he took her here. Though these rumors are confused with legends, there are evidences proving that these have great deals to do with reality.

Having undertaken a sacred mission as to spread Christianity, St. Jean chose Ephesus as the biggest city of the era, and secluded Virgin Mary at a hut in a wood of trees very close together on the skirts Bülbül Mountain because he did not want Virgin Mary to live in a place where idol worshippers would annoyed her.

This house is declared as the holy place of Christianity by Papacy in 1967. A ceremony is organized here during the first Sunday of following 15th of August and people, who came here become hadji.

After 39 years “NOVEMBER 24th 2006” the great POPE revisited the holy land once again and prayed for Peace in world.