Ayazini, Ä°hsaniye

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The place Ayazini (also Ayazin, in the Byzantine period Metropolis ) is located in the district İhsaniye in the Turkish province of Afyonkarahisar approximately 15 km east of İhsaniye and 30 km north of the provincial capital of Afyonkarahisar.

The place is located in a path extending from southwest to northeast valley, which has a Tufflandschaft, which is crossed by rock-hewn churches and homes in the way of Cappadocian Höhlenbauten. The most significant sacred building is a Byzantine cross-domed church in the southwest of the valley. She has a barrel vault, a series of six ( broken ) columns and a more far-reaching in the rock baptistery. It is noteworthy that the main and apses and a part of the dome are not only working internally in the stone, they are modeled on the outer side.

In the further course of the valley there are still smaller chapels, a larger residential and monastery complex in a side valley and rock tombs of Roman origin. Some of these tombs are located above the Islamic cemetery, including the grave with the Ionic columns, which in turn contains two floors ten niche graves. The grave was converted into a church in Byzantine times. In another tomb a relief of two lions can be seen.

Interior of the Church

Roman rock tombs on the graveyard