Fresco, St Michael's Church, Keslik Monastery, Urgup, Turkey
Jesus Christ, detail from Resurrection fresco, 1217-18, detail, on the ceiling of St Michael's Church or Archangelos Church, known as Black Church due to the soot stains, with 2 naves built 800 and 1200, at Keslik Monastery, a rock-cut cave monastery begun 3rd century AD and expanded in the Byzantine era, near Urgup, Nevsehir, Cappadocia, Central Anatolia, Turkey. The monastery includes 2 churches (Archangelos Church and St Stefanos Church), a spring, kitchen, dining hall, school, meeting room and houses accommodating 200. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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