Goreme-village, located 10 km from Nevsehir. The main attraction here is the open-air museum, which includes about 30 cave churches (in connection with the restoration work, access is only available in seven of them).

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In honor of which a holiday or a saint were consecrated altars of Cappadocian temples, in most cases it is not known. At present, they have fanciful names, born of the imagination of local residents and reflecting some characteristic feature of temple paintings. Thus, the names of the temples were introduced: Jyanyli-kilis ("Serpent Temple"), Karanlik-kilis ("Dark Temple"), Charikli-kilis ("Temple with sandals"). The word "kilise" in Turkish means "temple."

In the "Dark Temple" there is a twilight, as it is in the thickness of the rock and light enters through one tiny window. Here you can see the unique image of Christ, trampling hell in the form of a defeated figure of a man, bound hand and foot. The name "Temple with sandals" according to one of the versions comes from two notches in the form of human feet, located at the entrance. The frescoes of the "Serpent Temple" depict the Great Martyrs Georgy Pobedonosets and Theodore Stratilat, in the guise of warriors on white horses that infect a large snake.

The names of St. Basil the Great and two chapels in the name of the martyrs of Barbara and Catherine are more familiar to the ear

Most of the temples are invisible from the outside, except for those where the collapsed wall opens the gaze of a frescoed space. Being inside you need to look carefully at your feet: very often rock temples were also tombs. Ancient graves have long been devastated, but oblong sepulchral hollows, sometimes placed so close to each other, are left of them in the floor, that a human foot can hardly be placed between them.

Of course, not all the riches of Goreme are concentrated on the fenced patch of the museum . Nearby is a former maiden monastery ("Merie Manna") at the top of one of the hills . The entrance to it is a narrow and long climb, so that you must literally bend into three dying . Doing this difficult path, you find yourself in a small temple with preserved in the vaults and walls of the fragments of ancient paintings . very interesting located near Saclay, Kilis ( "Hidden Temple"), which was discovered only in 1956 .In it, many unique ancient murals have been preserved . The earliest time of erection in Gorem is the El-Nazar temple, dated 10 at .

One of the main attractions of Goreme is Tokala-kilis ("Temple with a buckle"). This is the largest local rock temple, it has a good internal preservation, including paintings attributed to the 10th-11th centuries. In a small niche, in the altar part of Tokala-kilis there is an image of the Blessed Virgin "Affection" - the earliest known image of this iconographic exodus.