Where was Philadelphia?

Brotherly love, a city of Lydia in Asia Minor, about 25 miles south-east of Sardis. It was the seat of one of the “seven churches” (Rev. 3:7-12). It came into the possession of the Turks in A. D. 1392. Modern identification: Alaşehir.

Philadelphia is represented in the local geography layer as Alaşehir. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Revelation 1:11 and is mentioned across 1 book, with 2 verse references collected into the glossary index.