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Fresco, Elmali Church, Goreme Open Air Museum, Cappadocia, Turkey

Baptism of Christ, with St John the Baptist baptising Christ in the river Jordan, with angels holding cloth, personification of the river blowing a horn, and the holy ghost, fresco, on the west wall of the Elmali Church, or Apple Church, a rock-cut 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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Baptism of Christ, with St John the Baptist baptising Christ in the river Jordan, with angels holding cloth, personification of the river blowing a horn, and the holy ghost, fresco, on the west wall of the Elmali Church, or Apple Church, a rock-cut 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