Seeing the first of anything is always a worthwhile experience; the first airplane, the first car, the first rock, etc. In Hatay, at the cave church of St. Peter, I got to see the first church in the entire universe! It was also the first place that the term "Christian" was used, and the place where St. Peter preached to those first Christians. (Acts 11, verse 26). Some of the features were notable. For example, the baptism font was simply a cave pool that collected natural cave drippings. There was also an intestine-like cave passage obscured in the rear where the early Christians would run to escape if the service were infiltrated by unfriendly or hostile heathens. (3/18/05)

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The First Church In The World (Cave Church of St. Peter)