A village named Shelter Population:
Right into the 1990s Çardak was a small, poor Cappadocian village with nothing much going for it. Today it still has little to offer in touristic terms, although many of the residents now live far more comfortably thanks to a booming industry in the production of building materials.
If you’re driving from Uçhisar to Derinkuyu you will pass through Çardak in which case you might want to pause just long enough to take a look at the main mosque, a mishmash of a building now housed in what was once a 19th-century stone church. That, in turn, stood on the site of a Selçuk mosque which, in turn, stood on the site of a fifth or sixth-century church.
A few pieces of stonework from the Selçuk model are gathered in the grounds as a “museum”.
Transport info
A few dolmuşes a day link Çardak with Nevşehir town centre.
