Lower Church, St John's Church, Gulsehir, Cappadocia, Turkey

Lower church, with stylised red decoration of crosses, shapes and animals painted on the bedrock, in St John's Church or Karsi Kilise, a 2 storey rock-cut chapel, originally built 10th century as a small cruciform church with single apse and barrel vault, then extended above with an upper church decorated with frescoes in 1212 during the Seljuk era, near Gulsehir, Nevsehir, Cappadocia, Central Anatolia, Turkey. The site is listed in the Rock Sites of Cappadocia UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Lower church, with stylised red decoration of crosses, shapes and animals painted on the bedrock, in St John's Church or Karsi Kilise, a 2 storey rock-cut chapel, originally built 10th century as a small cruciform church with single apse and barrel vault, then extended above with an upper church decorated with frescoes in 1212 during the Seljuk era, near Gulsehir, Nevsehir, Cappadocia, Central Anatolia, Turkey. The site is listed in the Rock Sites of Cappadocia UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen