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  • Eshab-ı Kehf Cave

  • Eshab-ı Kehf Cave

    Eshab-ı Kehf Cave is a show cave located to the north of Tarsus in Mersin Province, Turkey. The cave is considered to be one of the many places which are allegedly the cave of Seven Sleepers. Next to the cave, there is a mosque commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz, and built in 1873 AD.
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    Eshab-ı Kehf Cave
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    Eshab-ı Kehf Cave

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    Mosques and Islamic Buildings

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    Turkey

    Mersin

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    5th Century AD

    Byzantine

    Islamic

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