Çavuşin

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Çavuşin is a village ( koy ) in Avanos district of the province of Nevsehir in Cappadocia in Turkey on the connecting road between Avanos and Goreme, about five kilometers north of Goreme.

Attractions

One of the oldest cave churches of Cappadocia is the St. John's Church ( Baptist church also ), probably dating from the 5th century. After a rocky promontory in 1963, is her only the apse degree seen with rock-hewn benches. The existing paintings are barely recognizable.

In the northern part of the village, the dovecote Church ( Çavuşin Güvercinlik Kilisesi ) is from the 11th century AD In her broken away narthex frescoes of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel are seen. Inside the one-room church with a barrel vault and three apses there is a cycle of paintings from the New Testament. Due to a figure of the Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus Phocas the paintings can be dated to the 10th century. The church is designed without columns. Next to the church is a deserted monastery with associated grave system.

In nearby Rosental ( Güllüdere ) can be found with the Ayvalı Kilise ( Church with the quince ) a double church of Catholicon ( main church) and parekklesion ( side chapel ), which are connected by a passage. Her paintings, including a deesis and the Ascension, are heavily redacted. In the Red Valley ( Kızıl Çukur ) is the Haçlı Kilise showing a cross in the ceiling and large fresco above the altar.

In Pasabagi Valley has some of the most photographed motifs tuff. Among other things, the so-called triplets ( tuffs, sharing the top three peaks) or the local station of the Jandarma, which also has its headquarters in the tuff. It is located on the way from Çavuşin after Zelve.