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Shrines & Sacred Groves in Turkey

2 notable sites ranked among the world's top 100

2 Sites#48 Highest Rank

#48

📍 Şanlıurfa, Turkey🕐 Built: 9500 BCE

The world's oldest known temple, predating agriculture. Massive carved stone pillars with animal reliefs built by hunter-gatherers 11,500 years ago.

UNESCO World Heritage, world's oldest temple, rewrote history.

#63

📍 Istanbul, Turkey🕐 Built: 537 CE

A Byzantine cathedral, Ottoman mosque, museum, and now mosque again. Its 32-meter dome was the world's largest for nearly 1,000 years.

UNESCO World Heritage, 1,000 years as world's largest dome.