Biblical places
Iconium
The city where Paul and Barnabas preached the gospel during their first missionary journey but were driven out by Jewish opposition; identified with modern Konya, which has been continuously inhabited since antiquity.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Konya (Türkiye)
- 37.8667, 32.4833
A continuously inhabited city from antiquity to the present, so its location is conclusive; there is no disagreement between sources.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Acts 13:51
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
2 Timothy 3:11
Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
Acts 14:1
And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.
Acts 14:19
And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
Acts 14:21
And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
Acts 16:2
Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.