Biblical places
Smyrna
A port city, home to one of the seven churches of Revelation that received no rebuke, only praise. Corresponds to modern İzmir, where Roman-era agora ruins have been excavated in the city center.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- İzmir
- 38.4186, 27.1392
In antiquity there were two sites, Old Smyrna (Bayraklı) and New Smyrna (the agora in present-day central İzmir); the coordinates used here are for New Smyrna, corresponding to the Revelation-era (Roman) period.
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 2:8
And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;