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Show NavigationFresco, Upper Church, St John's Church, Gulsehir, Cappadocia, Turkey
Dormition of the Theotokos, or Koimesis, detail of the soul of the Virgin as a baby offered to Christ by angels, fresco, 13th century, in the upper church of St John's Church or Karsi Kilise, a 2 storey rock-cut chapel, originally built 10th century as a small cruciform church, 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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