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Some four to six years after the death of Christ,
St. John is said to have accompanied the Virgin Mary
to Ephesus, where it is believed they dwelt in a
small house over which now stands the Council
Church, or the Church of the Virgin Mary. The
Council Ephesus, dated of 431 record this. Later St.
John brought the Virgin Mother to a house on the
slopes of Bülbül Mountain, the position of which was
later forgotten, until research was begun in 1891 to
find traces of it. Katerina Emmerikin discovered
this house at Panaya Kapulu, which fits the
descriptions given in the sources. It was officially
accepted to be the house of the Virgin in 1892 with
the celebration of high mass there by Timoni,
Archbishop of Ýzmir, and this belief has recently
been confirmed by Pope Paul VI in 1967 and Pope John
Paul II in 1979 with the celebration of high mass at
Ephesus. The house is reached by a road leading from
the ruins of Ephesus towards the Bülbül Mountain,
and is only a short walk from the road (100 m).
 On the site of the House of the Virgin
Mary is a cruciform church with a central dome,
which is thought to have been incorporated into the
original building in the 6-7th centuries.
 The later structure can easily be
identified, as shown in red. Entering the church via
an arched Rortico with flanking niches, one reaches
a vaulted narthex, from which a raised portal leads
to the nave and apse. A statue of the Virgin Mary to
be seen here was erected in the last century, and is
fronted bya grey hearth area, known to have been
used for burning coal, and traces of coal and wine
were found there during excavations. The small room
to the south was a bed chamber. The absidal niche in
the eastern wall of this room is regarded as a
shrine by Moslems, who believe in the saintliness of
the Virgin Mary. Arabic inscriptions around the
walls are quotations from the Koran relating to the
Virgin Mary. To the west are a series of fountains
springing from below the floor of the house. The
water flowing from these fountains is considered
curative.
Visitors are free to drink the waters under the
shade of the shrine.
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