Voyage Anatolia

The Tower of Babel forms the focus of a story told in the Book of Genesis of the Bible. According to the story, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar.

Have you ever imagined to see Orthodox frescos of Mother Mary and Jesus in a mosque? Fertek (Fertakaina) Mosque was a Karamanlis Church of Archangelos Michael & Gabriel built by Kara Maho oğlu Hajji Nikola in 1835 in Fertek, Cappadocia, Turkey. The church has been a mosque since the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923. However its architecture and frescos were left intact simply covering with curtains.

The monastery is located in Gümüşler town, an important historical source with relation to the middle ages. Despite not knowing the precise foundation of the Gümüşler Monastery, it is supposed to have been built between 8th and 12th centuries. The monastery is carved out of a large rock church and is one of the best preserved and largest of its kind in the Cappadocia region.

Smiling Mother Mary and Jesus. Fresco in secret underground monasteries of Cappadocia region in Turkey. Coming more about hidden cave churches of Cappadocia soon... Gümüsler Monastery...

Snow at Orthodox Church of Saint Theodoros Trion at Derinkuyu, Cappadocia.

Snow at Cappadocia in winter, old Sinasos City, Mustafapaşa, Ürgüp, Turkey.

Hot-air balloon flying over a natural volcanic rock, fairy chimney with many caves and hidden chapels at Göreme, Open Air Museum, National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia, UNESCO World Heritage Site in Turkey.

Hot-air balloon flying over a natural volcanic rock, fairy chimney with many caves and hidden chapels at Göreme, Open Air Museum, National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia, UNESCO World Heritage Site in Turkey.