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Cennet Cehenmem Visiting Hours
April 1 - October 31 Monday Tuesday Çarşamba Perşembe Cuma Cumartesi Pazar 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 19.00 19.00 19.00 19.00 19.00 19.00 19.00 Box Office Closing: 18.45 October 31 - April 1 Monday Tuesday Çarşamba Perşembe Cuma Cumartesi Pazar 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 17.00 17.00 17.00 17.00 17.00 17.00 17.00 Box Office Closing: 16.45
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AddressHasanaliler Köyü, Narlıkuyu Beldesi, Silifke/Mersin
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A Visual Feast in Natural Natural in Feast Visual A It is located 25 km east of Silifke District, 2 km northwest of Narlıkuyu harbor and 5 km northwest of Corycus. There are two wonderful natural sinkholes in this area, each of which is a rocky, wide and deep pit. These sinkholes were formed in thousands of years by the collapse of the ceilings which was as a result of dissolution of subjacent lime beneath caused by underground water.
Cennet (Heaven) Sinkhole: It was called Corycus Cave in Antiquity. Its elliptical opening is 250 m and 110 m in diameter and its depth is 70 m. There is the entrance of a large cave, which is 200 m long and has a deepest point at 135 m, at the southern end of the bottom of the sinkhole. There is also a small church at the mouth of this cave.
Cehennem (Hell) Sinkhole: The Hell (Cehennem) Pit, 75 m northeast of the Cennet sinkhole, was formed in the way that Cennet was formed. It has a diameter of 50 m and 75 m and a depth of 128 m. It is very difficult to go down because the edges are concave.
According to the mythology, Titans are defeated in the battle between the gods, and these giants are imprisoned in the depths of the earth by the command of Zeus. Gaia, the Mother Earth, gives birth to a dragon to avenge Titans from Zeus. Dragon Typhon is defeated in the battle against Zeus, and Zeus temporarily holds him in a well of hell before imprisoning him to Mount Etna on the island of Sicily.
CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN MARY ASTHMA WISH CAVE The church has been built in the Cennet Sinkhole, right at the mouth of the cave. The four-line inscription on the entrance This cave is a natural formation with stalactites and stalagmites formed door indicates that this church was built in the name of Virgin in thousands of years. It is believed that the air in the cave is good for Mary by a religious person named Paulus. The dome and inner asthmatics. It is named in this way, because people attach clothes to walls of the apse shows Jesus and his apostles together. The the trees around the cave and make wishes. The formation of the cave, church dates approximately back to the 5th century AD. in which those who want to breathe better get into the cave by means of a spiral metallic staircase, dates back to the 3rd geological period. TEMPLE OF ZEUS The cave is adorned with interconnected galleries extending some 200 The Temple of Zeus is located at the southern end of the meters as well as giant shaped stalactites and stalagmites formed by Cennet depression. The first phase of the temple was built the accumulation of silica mineral. Humidity reaches 85 percent in during the Hellenistic Period. The reused stones on the northern summer and 95 percent in winter. wall of the temple were engraved with the names of 130 clergymen who served in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The temple was converted into a church in later centuries.