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Balatlar Church or Sinope Koimesis Church is a Byzantine church in the Yusufoğlu Range in the Ada neighborhood of Sinop. Covering an area of ​​3.062 m², the church is a rectangular basilica built in 660 AD. This building complex, thought to have served as a bath during its first construction in the Roman period, was built in the 6th-7th centuries. century church, 11-13. Between the centuries of grain storage, the Anatolian Seljuks or the Ottomans in the hands of the city after the capture of the native Christian people were abandoned into a monastery of Mary and Archangel Michael together. In the 1920s, it was used as a cemetery as well as worship.

The solid walls and carriers of the Roman structure were cut into carvings, and in accordance with the religious needs, the bones and similar places found in other Orthodox Greek monasteries and architectural elements such as niches, doors, arches, benchs, windows and springs were created. Apart from this, it was determined that the native Christian people under the Ottoman rule tried to make maximum use of the monumental Roman period building in which the monastery was built to bury as many people as possible. After the collapse of the Byzantine state, many parts of the Roman structure, which was present by the native Christian people, were changed and converted into churches.

Archaeological excavations
Since 2010, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Department of Art History. Dr. The archaeological excavations are being conducted under the direction of Gülgün Köroğlu. In this study, the region surrounding the structure was made public. Only the north and south walls of the church and the frescoes of Jesus, Mary and the apostles, based on scenes from the old and new covenants, are preserved.

Numerous tombs were excavated in the excavation, and in the Christian faith the sacred remains called relic were found. In addition, a chest thought to belong to Jesus was found in the excavation. In an interview on this topic, the head of the excavation Köroğlu said; "This crate is the most important find ever uncovered during excavations. There is probably a bone or a symbolic tomb of a holy person. This cross with the sign of the cross came out of the stone embankment. We think it's a part of it. "

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