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Location

  • Türkiye, İznik
  • geo:40.426521,29.723881

Period or year

  • 5xx / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Nicaea - Helikore - İznik - Baptistery

data access 22181

Böcek Ayazma (Spring-Baptisterium) was used for religious puropses towards the end of the 19th century,  It was built in the sixth century. There are in the walls, spolia materials dated back to the Early Byzantium Period

See:

  1. Böcek Ayazmasi-http://tayproject.org/TAYBizansMar.fm$Retrieve?YerlesmeNo=20072&html=bizansdetaile.html&layout=web
  2. https://www.gotobursa.com.tr/en/mekan/bocek-ayazma-spring-baptisterium-438/
  3. Haluk Çetinkaya, Churches of Nicaea, in: Nis and Byzantium 2021, pp. 55 – 76

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2015-09-12) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/22181
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Nicaea - Helikore - İznik - Baptistery. https://vici.org/vici/22181, accessed 2026-11-10.