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in: Sinop - Balatlar Kazısı ve Buluntular I, Gülgün Köroğlu,Filiz İnanan,Ozan Hetto, Editor, Kitapevi Yayınları, İstanbul, pp.449-477, 2024
Balatlar
Church is one of the monumental structures that has survived to this day in the
city of Sinope/ Sinop. In 2010, Prof. Dr. Gulgun Koroglu under the chairmanship
Scientific excavations continue. Balatlar, which is an important visit point in
Sinop's cultural history and tourism, is a complex of structures consisting of
different functional structures of monumental sizes, which have been determined
to cover a larger area day by day through ongoing excavations. Balatlar, which
is defined by the architectural data and excavation results that have survived
to the present day, was built as a bath in the Roman Period (2 century AD) on
the ruins of buildings from the Hellenistic Period. It was understood that
various units were converted into churches at different stages from the
Byzantine period to the Ottoman period and were used as a monastery, workshop,
church and cemetery until 1924.
According to the results of the excavations carried out by the Sinop
Museum on the parcels outside the Balatlar excavation area; The surrounding
area has been inhabited since the Archaic period; It has been determined that
there are public and sacred buildings. In the light of these data, it is
concluded that Balatlar and its surroundings have been "an important
center since the early periods". It is understood that the development
area of the Balatlar Church has not been adequately defined in the zoning
and/or conservation plans that have been made to date and are still in
progress. In the study, we draw
attention to the fact that although there is a lot of concrete data, the site
boundaries given in the past are insufficient.
and in the Conservation Development Plan, which is still under
construction, It is aimed to create data so that the I degree archaeological
site and its extension area in Balat can be registered as a II/III degree
archaeological site.