Rare Fresco of Good Shepherd Found in Turkey

The following article is of interest to all Christians who also love archaeology, but especially perhaps to those of us whose beloved congregation bears a variation of the namesake of Jesus as the “Good Shepherd.”

https://greekreporter.com/2025/12/11/good-shepherd-jesus-fresco-iznik-turkey/

Archaeologists in northwestern Turkey have uncovered one of the most important finds from the region’s early Christian era: a fresco of a Roman-looking Jesus as the “Good Shepherd.” The painting was discovered in August in an underground tomb near Iznik (formally known as Nicea), the very place where the Nicene Creed was adopted in A.D. 325.