Cappadocia National Park / Yilanlı Church. St George and St Theodorus
© Mark Buckley-Sharp  Sep-99
The Göreme open air museum is a UNESCO site comprising many rock cut churches with frescoes from the 11^th-13^th century.  One church is called the Yılanlı (‘with snake’) as it has the best preserved example we have seen of St George (nearly always on a white horse) and his companion St Theodorus (always on a brown horse).  St George is seen killing a snake (never a dragon) which represents evil and hell.
The church is very narrow, and I bought a 18-35mm zoom specially to take this picture.  To comply with conservation requirements, no tripod or flash were used.