Bursa · Turkey

Church of the Koimesis

Historic photo spotgoogle verified

~30 min

easy

7/10

contemplative

Only some foundations remain, but the church was once famous as the burial place of the Byzantine emperor Theodore I (Lascaris). Built around AD 800 and reconstructed after a mid-11th-century earthquake, it's İznik's only church that was never converted into a mosque; unsurprisingly, it was dynamite