Another of the Seven Churches of the Revelation, or Seven Churches of Asia- all of which are in modern-day Turkey, Thyatria was addressed by St. John in a letter of the New Testament, revealing the Revelations of Jesus Christ. In the letter, St. John speaks of a Jezebel (not the Jezebel of the Old Testament), who led others in the worship of idols- namely, an important temple of Apollo, once this city’s favored deity. By the 3rd century, Akhisar city was entirely Christian, though today it contains a mix of cultures and religions, with 7,000 Greek schismatics and over 1,000 Armenians and Jews out of a total population of 22,000.