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Show NavigationFresco, Upper Church, St John's Church, Gulsehir, Cappadocia, Turkey
Weighing of the Souls, with angel holding palm branch weighing souls on scales tipped by a demon, and 2 angels holding cloths waiting to welcome the saved, 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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