Güzelyurt Gelveri Turkey

Guzelyurt (Gelveri) Turkey

The first definite findings about the life in Gelveri began with Christianity. But obsidion and pieces of pots and pans found at this location have proved that there was life at this place in the Paleolithic Age. Afterwards, Güzelyurt was a country for the Asur Trade Colonies, the Hittites, the Meds, the Perisans, the Cappadocia Kingdom, the Roman Empire, the Byzantines, the Seljuks and the Ottomans.

The importance of Güzelyurt in history began with Christianity, with the father and the son Gregorios. The ideas that were put forward by Saint Gregorios Teologos (the son) were the cause of a new religious opinion af ter hundreds of years. The letters he wrote were the first of sung together were the first of their kind in church music history.

Ther religious system during the last days of the Ottoman Empire provided a base for such a strong economic system, that special permission was granted to the church to print money. The 4.5 kilometer long Monastery valley has in the past housed a monastery, many churches and thousands of people. it is said that the first monastery life began here in the third and fourth centuries.

It can be said that today's Güzelyurt within the Cappadocia regano with its undergorund cities, buildings carved in rock, traditional Byzantine-style buildings, churches, the Manastır valley and "Fairy chimneys" carry all the characteristics of Cappadocia, and is a place that must be seen from the historical and touristic point of view.

Selime Yaprakhisar Turkey Churches

Churches Of Selime and Yaprakhisar

Warehouse Church, Ambar Oda Kilisesi

The parts of large earthware jars show that this place was used as a storehouse. There are tree and goat figures as rifles on the walls.

Dervis Akin Church, Derviş Akın Kilisesi

It was built in the late 10th century and early 11th century. On the north wall Koimesis (Dormition of Virgin Mary); on southeast Mi­chael,; on northeast denetrios; on southwest Georgios can be seen. In the grave chamber, the picture of Virgin mary with Christ in her arms and a woman founder is realized. The grave chamber is carved in a rocky block in conic shape.

Kale Monastery Church, Kale Manastırı Kilisesi

It was built in the 8th-9th or 10th centuries and the frescoes were made in the 10th and 11 th centuries. It is one of the biggest buildings in Cappadocia. It is placed around two large Courtyards. There is a grave chamber on the east of the main courtyard and separate divi­sions with two stories on the southeast take place around two big courtyards.

There is a grave room on the east of the main courtyard. There is a long hall on the north and the division ornamented with rifle cross on the flat ceiling. And on the west, there is the division probably used as the meeting room. There are cellar, store and kitchen around the courtyard. Also, there is one grave room. It has a special architectural structure. In the division west of the church, there is an inscription in verse form.

The Ascension, Seven Bishops, the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Adoration of the Magi, the Massacre of the Innocents, the Flight int o Egypt, Flight of Elizabeth, the Appointment of John the Baptist, the Baptism, the first seven steps of Mary, the Presentation of Virgin Mary in the temple, the Nutrition of Mary by an Angel, Koimesis and some unknown and uninterpreted scenes and figures are represented.

Doğan Yuvası Kilisesi, Kare Kilise, Koyunağıl Kilisesi, Panagiia Theotokos Kilise, Alaygediği Kilisesi, Davullu Kilise, Çohum Kilisesi, Yazılı Kilise in which it is written "June 25 1024 Theodul the Servant of the God, died. For the future, I chose a grave for myself among the Fathers", "Christ's light is our light" are the places to visit. There are some pictures and motifs by which religious events are described can be seen.