Anatolian Mithraeums in the light of Doliche

Since the beginning of human history, people have either built a natural and imposing area of worship or built a temple with architectural techniques in order to fill the spiritual gaps and communicate with the creator. In Mithraism, which was in demand in ancient times at the borders of Anatolia, India, Iran, Mesopotamia and Rome, worship places built to communicate with god as well. In other geographies, except for the borders of Anatolia and Rome, no temple phenomenon regarding the god Mithras has been found. This belief, which was a member of soldiers, merchants and slaves, especially in the borders of Rome, served in places where there were more military crossings.For this reason, Mithras temples were built on the borders of Roman garrisons. This paper presents Mithras temples which existence of which is definitely proven in Anatolia and whose existence is within the bounds of possibilitiy. Doliche and Zerzevan mithraeums, whose existence is definetely well proven in Anatolia, has been a focal point and other areas discussed exitenceof temple has been adressed in detail as well. Pursuant to this distinction, Mithras temples in Anatolia have been the subject of our thesis since there is a deficency in the literature and no such study has been done before. Additionaly, in our study, a comparison was made by showing exanples of the several mithraeums discovered outside Anatolia.