In fact, its chief deity was Dionysus, the god of wine. Evidently, Jews in Philadelphia unsuccessfully tried to persuade Jewish Christians there to retain certain practices of the Mosaic Law or to return to them.
यहाँ तक कि इस शहर का सबसे बड़ा देवता था, डाइनाइसस जिसे दाखरस का देवता कहा जाता था ।