St. Basil's Church

 

It is on the left side of the fountain in Goreme Open Air Museum, just opposite to the entrance. Its entrance is full of graves and the paintings are of llth century.

The only aisle of the chapel is rectangular, with a large apse and two small apses. Inside the central apse a portrait of Christ is visible. The paintings are on bare rock. On the northern wall the standing figure is St. Basil. Aside to him is St. Theodore, riding a horse. On the opposite wall St. George is represented slaying a snake. Figures of the Holy Virgin and infant Jesus are painted between the two apses.