Fresco, St Theodora's Trion Church, Derinkuyu, Turkey

Central dome with fresco of Christ in the centre, 4 evangelists on the pendentives and starry skies under the arches, in St Theodora's Trion Church, or Aziz Theodoros Trion Kilisesi, a Greek Orthodox christian monastery church, built 1858, in Derinkuyu, Nevsehir, Cappadocia, Turkey. The church was built by Ottoman architect Kiriako Papadopoulos Efendi under sultan Abdulmecid for Greeks living in the region after the Reform Edict of 1856 and is known as the Grape Church or Uzumlu Kilise after reliefs and paintings of grapes in its decoration. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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