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The seven churches of Revelation and Patmos · Stop 7 · Day 2
Pergamum: the Red Basilica
In the Bible
The church in Pergamum did not deny its faith even when Antipas, the Lord's faithful witness, was killed among them.
Rev 2:13
I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits. Yet you have held fast to My name and have not denied your faith in Me, even in the day when My faithful witness Antipas was killed among you, where Satan dwells.Tradition
By tradition, Antipas was the bishop of Pergamum. In Byzantine times a church was built inside this temple of the Egyptian gods.
Here today
The huge red-brick hall of a 2nd-century temple in the lower town of Bergama, by the river.
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