St. Paul Memorial Museum

Historical Museum Church / Tarsus , Turkiye, Aegean, Mersin


St. Paul Memorial Museum

St. Paul Memorial Museum building was built by the Orthodox Arab-Greek Community in 1850. The real estate, which was used for different purposes until 1993, was allocated to the Ministry of Culture in 1994 and was transferred to St. It is named Paul Memorial Museum. St. Restoration work was carried out in the Paul Museum and its surroundings between 1997 and 2001. After the restoration and landscaping works were completed, the building was transferred to St. It was opened to visitors in 2001 as the Paul Memorial Museum. On the ceiling of the central nave of the church, which has a three-nave rectangular plan, is a statue of Hz. There are frescoes of Jesus, the Gospel writers Yohannes, Mattios, Marcos and Lucas, as well as an eye motif and a bird figure. There are depictions of landscapes and angels on both sides of the window at the top of the apse. There is a bell tower in the north-east corner of the church.

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