Zelve Open Air Museum (Overview)
Zelve is an open valley with a large cave settlement with Byzantine era-churches.
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Zelve Church 7
Zelve Churches 7a and 7b are two single-nave churches with side chapels.
Zelve Church 6
Zelve Church 6 is a square church with magnificent crosses carved onto the ceiling and side walls.
Zelve Church 4b
Zelve Church 4b is the well-preserved, 11th-century chapel in the Zelve Open Air Museum.
Zelve Church 4 (Grape)
Zelve Church 4 was the main church of the Zelve community. This large double-nave church features a variety of decorative crosses.
Zelve Church 2 (Holy Cross)
Zelve Church 2 is a large single-nave cave church inside the Zelve Museum.
Zelve Church 1
Zelve Church 1 is a single-nave burial chapel decorated with a remarkable variety of rock-cut crosses.
St. Symeon’s Hermitage (Paşabağı)
Paşabağı, a small monastic area near Zelve, features three pillar hermitages with monks’ cells and cave churches. The central hermitage,...
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