Church of St George, Ihlara Valley, it features a badly damaged fresco of St George slaying the dragon (a three-headed serpent). On either side of St George are Basil Giagupes, a Greek minister of the Seljuk Turkish Sultan Mesud II, and Basil's wife Thamar, who paid for the frescoes. The church is thought to have been built between 1283 and 1295.
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