There is no period source about the name and history of Gümüşler Town, where the monastery is located, in the Middle Ages. The monastery, carved into a large rock church, has survived to the present day well preserved and is one of the largest monasteries in the Cappadocia region.
There are many rock-carved monasteries in Cappadocia, and some scientists divide them into two groups: with a refectory (trapeze) and with an open courtyard. Gümüşler Monastery is in the second group. The most important structure of the monastery is the church located in the north of the complex. The church, which has a closed Greek cross plan with four free supports, has two grave niches to the north of the north cross arm, and two entrances covered with barrel vaults to the west of the naos. The functions of many of the other spaces in the monastery are unknown.
It is thought that at least three different masters worked on the church’s murals. At the top of the three striped paintings in the main apse are Christ on the Throne, two angels on his right, the symbols of the Gospel writers and the Virgin Mary and the apostles in the Desis scene, and in the bottom strip there are pictures of church fathers such as Basileios the Great of Kayseri, Gregory of Nysa, Gregorios of Nazians. .
The scenes of the Annunciation to Mary, the birth of Jesus and His Presentation to the Temple, and the figures of John the Baptist and St. Stephanos on the northern cross arm must have been created by a second artist. The figures of Mary and the child Jesus and the archangels Gabriel and Mikael on either side of the entrance door to the naos from the inner narthex belong to the third artist. On the walls of a room above the narthex, a composition consisting of hunting scenes and various animals, unique in Cappadocia, attracts attention. As in many churches in Cappadocia, wall paintings in Gümüşler Monastery can be made according to iconographic and stylistic features. With these features of the paintings in the church and the method of comparative evaluations, the 11th/12th. It is possible to date it to the centuries.