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The rock mass consisting
of 6 - 7 floors located at the left of the museum entrance
is known as "Monastery of Priestesses". This
monastery's dining hall, kitchen, a few rooms on the
first floor; destroyed chapel on the second floor can
be visited. Its church on the 3rd floor (that is reached
through a tunnel) has a cross dome, four columns and
three absissa. The templon in the main apsis is not
met in other churches in Göreme. There are red ornaments
beside the Christ fresco made directly on rock. "bolt
stones" are used for closing the tunnels in case
of a danger as in the case for the underground cities.
In the Monestary of Priests on the right, the passages
between the floors are closed because of erosion, therefore
only a few rooms in the entrance floor can be seen.
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