Biblical places
Perga (Pamphylia)
A city in Pamphylia that Paul and Barnabas visited during their first missionary journey (Acts 13:13), where John Mark turned back to Jerusalem. Extensive Roman ruins survive east of modern Antalya.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Aksu, Antalya
- 36.9614, 30.8539
There is no disagreement over its location.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Acts 13:13
Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.
Acts 13:14
But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
Acts 14:25
And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia: