Associated with the legend of the "Seven Sleepers" where seven Christian men miraculously slept for 200 years in a cave thereby avoiding persecution. Seen as a miracle of God the men were revered and when they died they were buried here and a church was erected above. Many graves are to be found at the site likely as so many wanted to buried near to the miracle men. The excavations here concluded that the Church and the graves appeared to be from the 5th and 6th centuries.
Creator
Joshua Bryant
Date of Visit
1st to 15th July 2012
Contributor
Joshua Bryant
Type
Architecture
Tags
Church, Ephesus, Late Antique, Tomb, Turkey
Collection
Comparative Graeco-Roman and Late Antique architecture of Western Anatolia
Item Type
Architecture
Citation
Joshua Bryant, “The Cave of the Seven Sleepers, Ephesus,” Architecture and Asceticism, accessed November 21, 2024, https://architectureandasceticism.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/239.