Biblical places
Thyatira
Hometown of Lydia, the dealer in purple cloth (Acts 16:14), and home to one of the seven churches of Revelation. Ruins lie beneath the modern Turkish city of Akhisar.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Akhisar
- 38.9201, 27.8363
The ancient city lies beneath the modern city of Akhisar, so its exact point is represented by the modern city's coordinates.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Acts 16:14
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
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 2:18
And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
Revelation 2:24
But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.