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Karanlık Kilise

A late-twelfth- to early-thirteenth-century rock-cut church in the Göreme Valley listed by UNESCO among Cappadocia’s richly decorated Byzantine sanctuaries.

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Anatolia & Cappadocia

late 12th–early 13th century · 1 registered source

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Historical frame

UNESCO names Karanlık Kilise among later richly decorated Göreme Valley churches.

Production / use

Surviving monument context; no workshop attribution in BIU014.

Movement / provenance

No movement claim.

Political / ecclesiastical

Church within the Cappadocian monastic landscape.

Artistic relation

Evidence for continued figurative decoration in the late Byzantine-era regional context.

Reception / adaptation

No automatic transmission claim.

Uncertainty

BIU014 does not infer specific iconographic programs beyond the UNESCO source.

Geography is not transmission proofGeographic proximity, shared typology, or visual similarity does not establish influence, workshop movement, trade, or transmission direction.
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Places + regional groupings

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Göreme Valley← includes-monument · source-backed

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Icon types + scenes

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Materials + making

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History + actors

1 direct
Post-Iconoclastic Cappadocian Figurative Programs← represented-by-monument · source-backed

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Karanlık Kilise← includes-monument →Göreme Valley← includes →Cappadocia
Karanlık Kilise← includes-monument →Göreme Valleyincludes-monument →Tokalı Kilise
Karanlık Kilise← represented-by-monument →Post-Iconoclastic Cappadocian Figurative Programsfollows →Restoration of Images, 843
Geography source trail

Sources supporting this profile.

UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia
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CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 description; image/media rights separate
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Göreme ValleyKaranlık Kilise ←includes-monument— Göreme Valley · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-811.Post-Iconoclastic Cappadocian Figurative ProgramsKaranlık Kilise ←represented-by-monument— Post-Iconoclastic Cappadocian Figurative Programs · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-815.
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  2. Karanlık Kiliseincludes-monumentGöreme Valleyincludes-monumentTokalı Kilise
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Connected record

← includes-monument
Göreme Valley
source-backed · UNESCO World Heritage Centre
← represented-by-monument
Post-Iconoclastic Cappadocian Figurative Programs
source-backed · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Source trail

UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia
Open source ↗
CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 description; image/media rights separate

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