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Fresco, El Nazar Church, Goreme Open Air Museum, Cappadocia, Turkey

First bath of Christ by 2 midwives Mea and Salome, and shepherds travelling to Bethlehem (right), fresco, from the nativity scenes in the north arm of El Nazar Church, or Evil Eye Church, a rock-cut cruciform church with central dome and single horseshoe arch apse, 11th century, Byzantine, in the Zemi Valley, 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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First bath of Christ by 2 midwives Mea and Salome, and shepherds travelling to Bethlehem (right), fresco, from the nativity scenes in the north arm of El Nazar Church, or Evil Eye Church, a rock-cut cruciform church with central dome and single horseshoe arch apse, 11th century, Byzantine, in the Zemi Valley, 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