Hasanaliler Church
Coordinates: 36 ° 27 '50 " N , 34 ° 5' 10.5" E
The church of Hasanaliler ( Turkish Hasanaliler Kilisesi ) is the ruin of an early Byzantine basilica in the district of Silifke in the Turkish province of Mersin .
location
The church is located in the hamlet Hasanaliler, a district of the Narlıkuyu municipality , about four kilometers northwest of Narlıkuyu and 16 kilometers northeast of the district town of Silifke. In Narlıkuyu, a road branches off from the coastal road D-400 to the northwest, which leads to the Koryk Grottoes (Cennet ve Cehennem) . Passing the caves, after a further 2.5 kilometers by road, you will reach Hasanaliler. To the left of the street, next to the village mosque, you can see the church. One kilometer to the west of the church is the building complex called Keşli , which is probably a Roman domain. About six kilometers further on, a dirt road leads to the right to the Mancınıkkale Fortress . About a kilometer east of the village and the church is the tower of Boyan .
description
Hasanaliler church is a three-aisled pillar basilica. As it was built on a sloping ground to the northeast, it stands on this side on substructures that consisted of at least two rooms and a cistern. In the north there are two more rooms below the floor level, an open vault and an apse room. A colymbion (holy water basin) has been preserved next to the entrance to the vaulted room . The apse in the northeast was built around two storeys in a rectangular manner. The central nave is 6 meters, the south aisle 3.2 and the north 3.9 meters wide. A 2.05 meter wide annex connects to the north . A lintel with an inscription was found as a spoil in a wall near the narthex , which mentions a Paulos as the founder. For stylistic reasons, the building is dated to the 6th century.
Mainly the apse and the pillar arcades of the south aisle as well as remnants of the apse casing are preserved, of the rest of the structure only the foundations can be seen. Scattered remains of around 20 Roman houses are still scattered around the town of Hasanaliler, most of which are included in the modern development.
Research history
In 1963 Otto Feld described the church in his report on a trip to Cilicia for the German Archaeological Institute . In 1978 Gilbert Dagron and Jean Marcillet-Jaubert published the foundation inscription in an essay on Inscriptions de Cilicie et d'Isaurie . Hansgerd Hellenkemper and Friedrich Hild visited the place in 1985.
Apse and substructures from the east
Pillar arcades between the south and central nave
Vault in the north, on the left the colymbion
Kolymbion (holy water font)
literature
- Hansgerd Hellenkemper, Friedrich Hild: New research in Kilikien. Publications of the commission for the Tabula Imperii Byzantini Volume 4. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7001-0771-4 , pp. 64–65.
- Friedrich Hild, Hansgerd Hellenkemper: Kilikien and Isaurien. Tabula Imperii Byzantini Volume 5. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7001-1811-2 , p. 270.
