Christ Pantocrator, blessing and holding the gospel, surrounded by 7 medallions of Christ Emmanuel and archangels, and 4 corner medallions of St Thomas, St Philip, St Prochorus and St Thaddeus, frescoes, 1000-50 by Constantinople artists, on the central dome of the Karanlik Church or Dark Church, a rock-cut cross-in-square column church, 11th century, Byzantine, in Goreme Open Air Museum, Nevsehir province, Cappadocia, Central Anatolia, Turkey. This area forms part of the Goreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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