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The Toklu Dede Mescidi was built, probably in the twelfth century, as a domed chapel with a single nave and narthex, and decorated with wall-paintings in the fourteenth century. In the Ottoman era it served as a chapel (mescid), but was destroyed in 1929. Today, only parts of its southern wall have survived. The original dedication of this chapel is unknown, as the traditional identification with the church of Saint Thecla, which had been concluded from the Turkish name, cannot be sustained.


East-West section through the church.

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