Saint Paul
Located in the south of Konya's famous Alaeddin Hill and built by Assumptionist priests, this Roman Catholic church was built with Konya-specific cut sille stone and completed in 1910. The church, which thus took its leaven from the city's stone and soil, has survived to the present day as a concrete example of the great Sufi tradition based on tolerance. The church, which attracts great attention with its Gothic style facade, is frequently visited by Christian communities who want to see the places and regions where St. Paul, who visited Konya as part of his first missionary trip, passed, and is named after this saint. There is a clergyman from Italy in the church to inform the visitors.
St. Paul's Church stands out today as the only surviving church within the provincial borders of Konya and not losing its function. All other churches were destroyed or converted into mosques, eventually losing their church functions.
St. Paul's Church was last restored in 1963.
