AMAZING Discovery! Underwater Church Could Have Been Site of the Council of Nicea Where Deity of Jesus Was Affirmed

News Staff : Sep 7, 2018
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Calls are being made to preserve the church as Turkey's first underwater archaeological museum.

(Turkey)— [Christianheadlines.com] Archaeologists exploring a lake in Turkey have discovered a 1,700-year-old Christian church that may have been the location of the landmark Council of Nicaea, which was held in 325 B.C. and affirmed the deity of Christ. (Screengrab: Photo Credit: Mustafa Şahin/Lake Iznik Excavation Archive/via Live Science)

Mustafa Şahin, head of archaeology at Bursa Uludağ University, told Live Science that the church was found using aerial photographs. The church is buried underneath Lake Iznik near the town of Iznik, which formerly was known as Nicaea.

"When I first saw the images of the lake, I was quite surprised to see a church structure that clearly," Şahin told Live Science. "I was doing field surveys in Iznik [since 2006], and I hadn't discovered such a magnificent structure like that"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here.

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