[4] In 2011 the American Duke Dillard moved to Çavuşin with his family and set up the Captivating Cappadocia website which has photos and information on the village.

The first of the churches is right beside the main road and clearly visible because part of its facade has fallen down, exposing two huge frescoed angels to the open air.

They depict the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (modern Sivas) who were driven out naked onto a frozen lake to die during a persecution of Christians in the early 4th century.

A cross-shaped hole in the floor of the apse may once have contained relics of St Hieron, an obscure saint strongly linked to Göreme.

[4] From the ridge above Çavuşin it is possible to look down on a group of fairy chimneys' that make it fairly apparent how the wind and rain of the centuries gradually eroded solid rock to create these features that are so characteristic of Cappadocia.