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: ''Meryemana'' or ''Meryem Ana Evi'', "Mother Mary's House") is a Christian and Muslim shrine located on Mt. Koressos (Turkish: ''Bülbüldağı'', "Mount Nightingale") in the vicinity of Ephesus, in modern-day Turkey (7 km from Selçuk). It is believed by many Christians and Muslims that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was taken to this stone house by Saint John and lived there until her (...)

The library of Celsus was built for Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus and completed in AD 135 in Ephesus, Asia Minor (Anatolia) (now Turkey). Celsus’ son, Gaius Julius Aquila (consul AD 110), built the library in honor of his father who was consul in AD 92, former governor of Asia in AD 115, and a wealthy and popular local citizen (...)

The Second Council of Ephesus was convened as the fourth ecumenical council of the Church and opened on August 8, 449 AD. It was a synod or council of the Christian Church convoked at Ephesus under the authority of Pope Dioscorus of Alexandria and Emperor Theodosius II, with the agreement of Patriach Leo I of Rome (...)