Biblical places
Philadelphia (Asia Minor)
A city in Asia Minor, home to one of only two churches in Revelation to receive no rebuke, only praise (Revelation 3:7-13) — unrelated to the American city of the same name. Corresponds to modern Alaşehir in Turkey's Manisa province.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Alaşehir
- 38.3500, 28.5170
The ancient city lies beneath the modern city of Alaşehir, so the modern city's coordinates are used.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Revelation 1:11
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
Revelation 3:7
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;