As the church was discovered in the year 1957, the church was named as the “Hidden Church“. The church is located in the vicinity of El – Nazar Church. The paints adorning the church are directly painted to the main rock body, not on plaster. Painted cloth […]
Read more →Chapel Of St. Basil is situated at the entrance to the Goreme Open Air Musuem. Graves are to be found in the columned narthex area. The nave is transversely rectangular and barrel vaulted, and has three apses situated on the left, long side of the rectangular nave. […]
Read more →The 6-7 storey rock mass to the left of the museum entrance is known as “the Nunnery“. The dining hall, kitchen and some rooms on the first floor, together with the ruined chapel on the second level, can still be visited. The church on the third storey, […]
Read more →Kılıçlar Church (Swords Church), is in Kılıçlar Valley, which is near Göreme Open Air Museum. Chapel 29 has always confused scholars because of its painting programme. Hence, there are different views about the date of this church. According to several authors, however, Kılıçlar Church is the earliest […]
Read more →The church is located on the steep hill which is located to the south of Kiliclar–Swords Church at an approximate distance of 250 meters to the open air museum behind the ridge of Church of the Buckle . Kiliclar Kuşluk Church, one of the most beautiful churches […]
Read more →El Nazar Church is situated in the El Nazar valley, about 800m to te right from the road to the Goreme Open air museum. This church was carved from one piece of rock in a “T” shape. It is cruciform with three apses, the main apse opening […]
Read more →In the Goreme Open Air Museum near the village of Avcılar (Maçan), there is a monastery linked with the church known as Yusuf Koç Church. The rooms of this monastery are grouped around the edges of a large cone and may extend into two more cones to the […]
Read more →This basilica style church differs from the others in that it has a pulpit in the centre, its columns are thick and rectangular in shape, it has a baptistery and graves hollowed out of the walls in the first section. The church, dating back to the 6th […]
Read more →Built by a donor named Anna, the Chapel of St. Catherine dates from the 11th century. It has a Greek-cross-shaped nave, with a dome over the center and barrel-vaulted cross arms. The narthex has nine floor tombs and two burial niches. The bodies of holy martyrs and […]
Read more →The Dark Church is the most important sight in Goreme open-air museum and is the most richly decorated of the churches here. Lit by only one skylight, the darkness has preserved the frescoes, which have been carefully restored and can now be seen in all their glory. […]
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