Elmali Kilise (Apple Church)

After the Chapel of St. Basil we found this beautiful little church covered with frescoes and with eight small domes. Some say that the Archangel Gabriel is holding on to part of the central nave. The beauty of this church, like many others in Cappadocia, lies in the simplicity and the expressiveness of its frescoes. Being small and rather dark we found it very easy to imagine the small Byzantine Christian communities gathered here to pray.