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Travel: Visiting Turkey 1,700 years after the Nicene Creed was adopted

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It’s hard to imagine Christianity without the Nicene Creed.

Regular churchgoers will surely know all or some of the words — “I believe in one God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth …” — even if they don’t know the origin of what’s recited almost every Sunday by most Christians worldwide.

Seventeen hundred years ago, what became the defining statement of Christianity was adopted in Nicaea (present-day Iznik, Turkey). Back then, Iznik was an outpost of the Roman Empire under Emperor Constantine the Great in what used to be called Asia Minor.

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