Iconography of Jesus mi̇racles in Cappadocia rock churches

Mankind accepts the existence of holy people at the extent of the miracles they performed. Many miracles attributed to Jesus by God are mentioned in the Bible, which is the book of Christianity. The miracles attributed to Jesus include the miracles of healing diseases, miracles of nature and miracles of resurrection. Christian Iconography. The Cappadocia region is important in terms of containing the rich examples of Christian Iconography. The aim of this study on the wall paintings depicting the miracles of Jesus in Cappadocia rock churches was to document miracle scenes on wall paintings, which are destroyed by nature and people day by day, to examine them iconographically and to gather them in a single study. In this study, all rock churches in the region were discussed without period restriction. In this context, forty one scenes were found in sixteen churches where Jesus' miracles are depicted. Fourteen of these churches are rock churches and two of them are stone churches. Therefore, thirty nine scenes in the relevant fourteen rock churches were included in the study. The miracle scenes in the churches built with stone are mentioned in the comparison and evaluation section. Among the miracle scenes detected, the scene about the resurrection of Lazarus in El Nazar Church has not reached the present day. Some of the scenes that have reached the present day are intensely destroyed. It was found that three of miracle scenes in the region were misidentified in previous publications, and they were corrected. It is seen that miracle scenes in the Cappadocia region were usually depicted in the same way as the basic pattern diagrams in Christian Iconography.