Kırıkdağ Gelezo Kilisesi

Sahhah is entered by a door from the northwest corner. The door has a rectangular opening from the outside and a recessed arch extending from the inside. It has a rectangular plan measuring 6.80 m x 5.00 m and is covered with a barrel vault in the same direction. The floor is completely covered with smooth lime mortar. This was revealed by the removal of animal manure up to 0.30 m. A 0.65 m high bench measuring 1.00 m x 1.10 m was placed in the northeast corner. There is a three-step staircase extending from the wall formed by stones and mortars to the southern corner. From this staircase, the gate to the Kanki section, which is slightly elevated, passes through two doors. The upper wall section of the smaller rectangular door at the southern corner was demolished. The other door is 2.50 m high and 1.10 m wide. In this axis of the door, a loophole was placed on the upper part of the western wall. In addition, a cupboard niche was opened on the surface between the two doors to the east. Plaster marks on the walls.nnThe higher kanki section in the east has a rectangular plan in the north-south direction measuring 3.10 m x 4.80 m. It is covered with barrel vault in east-west direction. It is a sacred niche in the north of two niches opening to the east wall. It starts from the base on the south side and ends at the top of the arch, 0.60 m deep, 1.70 m long and 1.00 m wide. The other sacred niche starts at a smaller height of 0.70 m, 0.40 m in depth, 0.80 m in width and 1.30 m in height, with a pointed arch niche. There are also two closet niches on the north wall and a closet niche on the south wall.nnThe rubble stone walls were kept at a thickness of 1.10 m. It is covered with flat earth roof. In the structure just below the flat roof, the ventilation tunnel, which runs along the sides from north, west and south, has an opening of 0.50 m wide and 1.00 m high. Six holes, three from the north wall, two from the south wall and one from the west wall, are drilled in the section of the section. A perforated hole was also drilled in the Kanki section. The ventilation holes are formed by ducts. This ventilation tunnel emerged from the collapsed section at the eastern end of the northern wall.nnAlthough the structure is intact today, it is far from the residential area and is unprotected.nn4 Nasturi tombs were found on the slope to the southeast of the church. Since the tombs lying in the south-west-north-east direction had soil flowing in the south-west direction, the graves were exposed. It is understood that the two long and short sides of the graves were surrounded by flat raft stones and covered with flat cover stones and grounded. In addition, the ruins of the village of Nasturi on the opposite slope and the terraces of terraces formed with two or three rows of large stones under the church draw attention.

Unfortunately, a neglected ruin