Turkey is a young country but a very historic land.The legacies of the Greeks, Romans , Christian apostles , Byzantines , Ottoman Turks , and the other peoples that have called this area home have made Turkey into a vast outdoor museum full of beautiful, intriguing religious sites.Highlights of Turkey's many religious treasures include the spectacular Byzantine churches and beautiful mosques of Istanbul;the ancient city of Antioch where emperors lived and apostlespreached;the ruins of the fabled city of Pergamum on a windswept hilltop;the Sufi holy city of Konya;the other worldly landscape and cave churches of Cappadocia;and the colonnaded streets and great theater of Ephesus.With its unique fusion of Europe and Asia,West and East,exotic and familiar, ancient and modern,today's Turkey is a delight to travelers and pilgrims.