Mother Church Mother Church Date Mother Church Immediately left of the entrance of the Göreme open air museum, a tall, rugged cliff features a vast number of caves, windows, vaults and galleries that had once been the Rahibiler church, a nunnery which flourished between the 8th and 13th centuries. Even today it is evident that the convent [ Read More ]
Archive for August, 2010
LEG OLD CHURCH The literally translated equal would be “Old Leg Church” but the origin of this curious name is not evident. The frescos belong to the early 11th century, portraying Mary and Christ.
STONES, THE CHURCH OF CURVE (Slanting Church) Slanting Church date When the original wooden floor of the church collapsed, an ancient burial site came to light, with rows of funeral vaults in the walls, hewn between the 8th and 12th centuries. According to an inscription on the eastern wall, the church was dedicated to Virgin Mary. [ Read More ]
Baptist Church Baptist Church date Baptist Church Driving from Göreme toward Cavusin one cannot miss the eyecatching sight of a large, collapsed rock face featuring hundreds of cavities, windows and entrances, and a split church that has not yet been surveyed. It should have been hewn out of the tufa around 630. The area harbors many still [ Read More ]
THE CHURCH OF THE COLUMNED MONASTERY THE CHURCH OF THE COLUMNED MONASTERY DATE The frescos belong to the epoch of King Basileios II and Constantin VIII, comprising the years between 906 and 1025, as the unkown artist has inscribed on the wall to the delight of present historians. The fresco of the dome in the main [ Read More ]
CHURCHES BENEATH THE TREE (Daniel and Pantanessa) The once magnificent Church of Daniel is in bad shape permitting entry only through a hole in its domed ceiling. Facing north, the original entrance was blocked by a landslide in the distant past. Painted between the 5th and 11th centuries the surviving murals depict the Annunciation and [ Read More ]
THE CHAPEL OF TWO FACES THE CHAPEL OF TWO FACES CAPPADOCIA This tiny chapel has neither a registered, nor a local name. The interior decoration resembles to those in the Firkatan and the Barbara Church. Art experts believe that the decorative bands were painted by the same artist who also worked in the two other sanctuaries. [ Read More ]
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