Hello.
I'm here with a trip to Gümüşler monastery, a place that many of you don't even know about this monument in Niğde. Churches and underground cities are located in this area. Although I am from Niğde, I can say that I discovered this area, which stunned those who see it, 32 years later. There are different rooms in this area, which you can visit by paying a small entrance fee. Especially in some places it will be cold and in some places you will have difficulty walking. I hope you will have a difficult and enjoyable experience in this monastery with narrow corridors :)
Let me share a brief information about this place from the Niğde Culture and Tourism Directorate Introductory Booklet below.
Enjoyable viewing.
Gumusler Monastery
There is no period source about the name and history of Gümüşler Town, where the monastery is located, in the Middle Ages. The monastery, which was carved into a large rock church, is one of the largest monasteries in the Cappadocia region, which has survived well-preserved.
There are many monasteries carved into the rock in Cappadocia.
The most important structure of the monastery is the church in the north of the complex. There are two burial niches to the north of the northern cross arm of the closed Greek cross planned church with four free supports, and two entrance spaces with barrel vaults to the west of the naos. The functions of many of the other places in the monastery are unknown.
It is thought that at least three different masters worked on the wall paintings of the church. At the top of the pictures in three stripes on the main apse, there is Jesus on the Throne, two angels on the right, the symbols of the Gospel writers and the Virgin Mary and the apostles in the Desis scene, and the images of church fathers such as Basil the Great from Kayseri, Gregorios from Nysa, Gregorios from Nazians on the bottom strip. .
The Annunciation to Mary, the Nativity of Jesus and the Presentation to the Temple, and the figures of John the Baptist and St. Stephanos on the northern arm must have come from a second artist. The figures of Mary and child Jesus on the south of the entrance door from the inner narthex to the naos and the archangels Gabriel and Mikael on both sides belong to the third artist. On the walls of a room above the narthex, a composition consisting of hunting scenes and various animals, which is not seen in Cappadocia, draws attention. As in many churches in Cappadocia, it can be done according to the iconographic and stylistic features of wall paintings in Gümüşler Monastery. These features of the pictures in the church and the method of comparative evaluations 11/12. It is possible to date it to the 6th century.
20 май 2022
