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

Frescoes at 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. In the dome is the Ascension fresco and under the arches are medallion frescoes of saints. 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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Frescoes at 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. In the dome is the Ascension fresco and under the arches are medallion frescoes of saints. This area forms part of the Goreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen