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Germiyan Church

Germiyan Kilisesi

An early 19th century church built for the local Greek Orthodox 5 km north of Değirmenköy. After they left the area in the 1920s, it served as the village schoolhouse until a landslide in the 1960s forced the relocation of the village to its current location south. Since then, it stands derelict and lonely on an atmospheric hillside, together with the ruins of a 1940s mosque about 100 m to its south — the only remains of the former village.

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Getting there: Lütfü Vardar Caddesi 10.6 km

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