Ayazini
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Afyonkarahisar | |||
| District ( ilçe ) : | İhsaniye | |||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 1 ′ N , 30 ° 34 ′ E | |||
| Residents : | 1,442 (2008) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) | |||
| Postal code : | 03 370 | |||
| License plate : | 03 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2008) | ||||
| Mayor : | Atilla Kızıldere ( AKP ) | |||
The place Ayazini (also Ayazin , in Byzantine times Metropolis ) is located in the İhsaniye district of the Turkish province Afyonkarahisar , about 15 km east of İhsaniye and 30 km north of the provincial capital Afyonkarahisar .
The place is located in a valley running from southwest to northeast, which has a tuff landscape , which is criss-crossed by rock churches and dwellings in the style of the Cappadocian cave structures . The most important sacred building is a Byzantine cross-domed church in the southwest of the valley. It has a barrel vault , a row of six (broken) columns and a baptistery that extends further into the rock. It is noteworthy that the main and secondary apses and part of the dome are not only worked into the stone from the inside, but are also modeled on the outside.
In the further course of the valley there are still smaller chapels, a larger residential and monastery complex in a side valley and rock tombs of Roman origin. Some of these graves are located above the Islamic cemetery, including the grave with the Ionic columns , which contains ten niche graves on two floors. The tomb was converted into a church in Byzantine times. In another grave building a relief with two lions can be seen.
Rock church
Interior of the church
Roman rock tombs above the cemetery
literature
- Marianne Mehling (Hrsg.): Knaur's cultural guide in color Turkey. Droemer-Knaur, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-426-26293-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Ash. A Byzantine Journey . Random House 1995, pp. 113f. ISBN 978-0-679-40934-2 on GoogleBooks
- ↑ Wolfgang Dorn. Turkey - Central Anatolia: between Phrygia, Ankara and Cappadocia . DuMont, 2006, pp. 171f. ISBN 3-7701-6616-7 on GoogleBooks