Three km from Chufut-Kale lies Tepe-Kermen – the Ancient Cave City.

 

The Church inside Tepe-Kermen …

 

… “with two entrances and three windows. In the altar were six roughly worked columns, of which only three survived; outside the altar, carved large crosses. In one of the inner corners of the church a stone box of a cruciform shape was carved into the floor – this is the baptistery (a font for baptism). On one of the tombs in the church – the remains of a Greek inscription …”