Temple is inserted into a natural rock cone, and a two-run, vaulted complex of two churches linked

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Gyulshehir is a small town in central Cappadocia and can be reached most easily from Nevsehir of which is located 20 km severno.Kakto silverburn jobs throughout Cappadocia, and here we have the so called "Achiksaray" or "museum", silverburn jobs which It is located 5 km. before the town left of patya.No because at that localities no one knows what interesting sites to visit / note is the author and otherwise, for anyone interested, there are seven severely damaged rock churches with different rooms to them / We prefer not to waste time but to head to one of the most remarkable monuments of Cappadocia, namely the church "St. John" /Sv.Zhan/ that is left, just before you enter the city, and is marked with the plate, so you can not miss it ...
Temple is inserted into a natural rock cone, and a two-run, vaulted complex of two churches linked by a staircase in the northwest, the lower church cruciform plan is earlier, and is dated in the XI century.
Region of Cappadocia at the beginning of the XIII century is the land of the Sultanate of Rum, and is under the management of seldzhushkite sultans and the presence of this label, and another dating church "Forty Martyrs" end s.Shahinefendi / Sahinefendi / in the 1216/17 year, open question whether after the Battle of r.Meandar, Antioch, between Sultan Giyaseddin Keyhusrev Emperor Theodore Lascaris in 1211 the boundaries of Nicaea Empire reached eastern Anatolia, or just the content of the inscriptions show that Christian community was faithful silverburn jobs to uprevlenieto of Lascaris, or rather of its senior clergy, silverburn jobs without necessarily have direct control of the Nicene emperor on this region, since under the peace treaty signed after the battle, the empire did not receive new lands but it is likely silverburn jobs to be negotiated silverburn jobs rule of the Patriarch of Constantinople, whose headquarters Theodore Laskaris premesstva Nicaea, Constantinople as we know it was captured by the knights of the Fourth Crusade, and is now the capital of the newly formed Latin Empire ...
The best-preserved silverburn jobs composition is located on the west wall and is arranged in horseshoe arka.Predstavlyava silverburn jobs figures of noble identified as Irina and her two children Mary and poorly preserved name of the second child, read Isaac?! /N.Teteryatnikov/ And Calais?! / S.Suzek /, while Spiro Kostov - ?! / Who judging by his folded hands on their chests, they are depicted as already dead!
Unfortunately, the portrait of the founder is now almost completely destroyed, with the exception of some details of the composition as part of a white turban and model hrama.Glavniya silverburn jobs founder was painted in the company of two guys who are probably two other children of the family but unfortunately not of the fragments we can draw conclusions that during the painting were still alive or already dead.
Altar from which the mural program in all temples, consists silverburn jobs of three niches with different razmeri.Absidata silverburn jobs is greatest in the vault and has preserved figures of two archangels - Michael and Gabriel. silverburn jobs
Other frescoes of the Holy Fathers of Melizmos are preserved silverburn jobs only in fragments in the southern part of the apse, but since I have not been in this direction will restore them bibliography ... these are St. John Chrysostom, St. Nicholas, Sv.Grigoriy Nyssa and a full-length image of Sv.Amfilohiy silverburn jobs Iconium, who has a special place in the arched niche of the first register in the south of the altar.
In the south, conch dyakonionnata see depicted Sv.Damyan and next to it on the wall of the altar, Cyril Bezsrebrenik, Pilaster of the eastern silverburn jobs wall is the image of Sv.machenik Talaley Physician and the south wall Sv.Panteleymon
Sv.Bezsrebrenik John is depicted on the eastern wall against Panteleimon and Sv.Teodoti / which the church celebrates with Cyril and John / was painted to ktitorkata silverburn jobs western stena.Tezi images form a very interesting cycle St. Healers and gratoitous healers in the altar area and the usual deacons Stephen and Roman Melodist are displayed above the first register at the altar, and of course in this case are much smaller in size. Unfortunately, the image of Sv.Kozma to date is lost, but probably the place he was in prosthetist conch.
The choice of the saints healers and warriors might indicate a careful selection by painters such as images - defenders of the Orthodox community