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

Benediction of the apostles, with Christ blessing his apostles with St John, St Mark and St Peter on left and St Paul on right, fresco, 1000-50 by Constantinople artists, on the west wall of the narthex in 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. Above is the Ascension of Christ, with Christ blessing and holding a scroll, in a rainbow aureole with 4 flying angels. 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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Benediction of the apostles, with Christ blessing his apostles with St John, St Mark and St Peter on left and St Paul on right, fresco, 1000-50 by Constantinople artists, on the west wall of the narthex in 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. Above is the Ascension of Christ, with Christ blessing and holding a scroll, in a rainbow aureole with 4 flying angels. This area forms part of the Goreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen