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Yılanlı Kilise

TIME : 2016/2/19 2:47:25

Uphill from the Azize Barbara Şapeli is the Yılanlı Kilise (Snake Church, or Church of St Onuphrius), where St George's ubiquitous dragon-foe is still having a bad day. To add insult to its fatal injuries, the church got its current moniker when locals mistook the pictured dragon for a snake.

The hermetic hermaphrodite St Onuphrius is depicted on the right, holding a genitalia-covering palm leaf. Straight ahead, the small figure next to Jesus is one of the church's financiers.