TY  - JOUR
TI  - Burials in the Soğanlı Valley: The Life of the Monuments
AB  - The article intends to dwell on some of the churches and complexes in the Soğanlı Valley, to focus
on their locations in the settlement and the burials in or around them, with the aim of making suggestions on
their usage and in which way they expanded within a certain time period. The monuments mentioned in the
article are the churches 26, 27 and 27a, the Complex of St. Barbara, the churches 29, 30, 31 and 32, Yılanlı
Chapel, two churches of the Complex of Karabaş, the churches 1 and 2, the churches of the Kubbeli
Complex, and the six burial cones to the east of the Geyikli Monastery. Some of the churches without direct
attachment to any of the complexes and which had intensive or limited burials do not bear wall paintings or
inscriptions to date or compare them. Still, it should not be completely ruled out that such churches had
organic and liturgical connections with religious and domestic complexes. At the end of the study, it seems
reasonable to suggest that the valley housed churches primarily carved out to house the burial of a family
member, which later developed both into a cemetery and a family church of a domestic complex; churches
expanded around a solemn figure, where his/her grave ensured the church and its religious community to
carry on its presence; churches expanded around an ascetic or a simple villager, which turned into a complex
used by the villagers and for their burials.
AU  - Karaca, H. Ceylan
DO  - 10.7827/TurkishStudies.54226
PY  - 2021
JO  - Turkish Studies (Elektronik)
VL  - 16
IS  - 7
SN  - 1308-2140
SP  - 237
EP  - 248
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/516917
ER  -