Old city Kilistra home to pixie fireplaces
The old city of Kilistra, situated on the memorable King Road in the focal Anatolian region of Konya, is drawing consideration for its cone shaped shake developments which look like "pixie stacks" found in Cappadocia.
Like Cappadocia, the old city was home to Christian people group and authentic structures, including a cross-arranged house of prayer, hyacinth church, enormous water storage, places of worship, religious communities, watchtowers, havens and antiquated streets. The remaining parts of these structures make Kilistra a significant focal point of confidence history and the travel industry.
In Meram region's Gökyurt neighborhood, the old city started to fill in as a settlement in the third century B.C. Its populace, especially the Christian people group, increased in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
These days, is famous among travelers who visit Turkey for confidence the travel industry.
Teacher Fethullah Arık, leader of the Geology Engineers Konya Branch, said that the antiquated city additionally filled in as a station.
"A holy person named Thecla got away from the agnostic guideline in Konya and went to the Christian settlements in the Hatunsaray district.
She came to Hatunsaray on the grounds that she was under danger of genuine discipline as a result of her work in Konya to spread Christianity.
Kilistra was viewed as a station of Hatunsaray to keep assaults from irresolute individuals," Arık said.
Like Cappadocia, the Christians fabricated numerous places of worship in the Hatunsaray locale.
"The greater part of the engineering structures from that period are shake cut. There are holy places, houses of prayer and living spaces in these structures, and this is a detect that we see as significant as far as history just as far as confidence the travel industry since it is directly alongside Konya," the educator said.
The locale is like Cappadocia because of its stone developments.
"Kilistra is a district of volcanic rocks that were shaped around 3 to 11 million years back.
In the territory where the primary church is situated in Kilistra, particularly the stones are volcanic rocks. These are tuffs that were welded after the blast. Since they can be effectively cut and handled, this area was picked," Arık said.
"The facts demonstrate that they resemble pixie stacks. Pixie stacks have a morphology that ensures the fundamental structure particularly in the territories where the volcanic layers are flawless.
Such structures can without much of a stretch be cut into rooms and places of love; living spaces can be made.
The pixie smokestack structures that we see in numerous pieces of Central Anatolia are additionally present in the Kilistra territory, but on a littler scale," he said.
