Keşlik Monastery
Keşlik Monastery outside Ürgüp is a sprawling cave monastery complex with two churches (St. Michael and St. Stephen), a large refectory hall, a sacred spring, and endless cave rooms. Located in an idyllic garden setting, this is the most expansive monastery in Cappadocia.
This site has been used and developed in many ways throughout the course of 2,000 years. The monastery is located 15 km south of Ürgüp, just past the village of Cemil.
In the monastery complex, there are two churches, a liquor store, a winery, a kitchen, a dining hall, a school, a meeting hall, a holy spring, houses of monks and priests.The different sections of the monastry are carved inside the Cemilköy ignimbrite