Gülşehir
Situated 20 km to Nevşehir city center, Gülşehir is located on the southern banks of the Kızılırmak (Red River). Today’s “Rose City” as in translation of Gülşehir was once known as ‘Zoropassos’ and later as ‘Arapsun’. Public works of the kind carried out by Damat Ibrahim Pasha in Nevşehir were realised in Gülşehir by the Ottoman Grand Vizier Karavezir Mehmet Seyyid Pasha, who had a compound consisting of a mosque, a theological school and a fountain built in the town, which consisted of only 30 households. Two-storey Church of St. John, also known as Karşı Kilise (the Opposite Church) which is situated right at the entrance of Gülşehir, houses a wine cellar, graves, water channels and living quarters on the lower floor, and a church decorated with biblical scenes on the upper floor. According to the inscription on the apse, the church is dated to 1212. Scenes from the life of Jesus and the Bible are in the form of friezes within the borders. Yellow and brown have been used on a black background. On the niche vault and on the sides, floral and geometrical patterns were used. On the west and south walls the Last Judgment can be found, a scene rarely depicted in Cappadocian churches.