Zelve Monastery

It is part of the Zelve Open Air Museum, located between Ürgüp and Avanos, Turkey.

The complex contains innumerable rooms and passages which also house many pointed fairy chimneys with large stems, at about 40 feet above the valley floor.

[1] The site was inhabited until 1952 when villagers were relocated to nearby Aktepe due to safety concerns.

Dating back to the early years of monastery life in Zelve is the Direkli Church (with the famed columns).

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