Ali Monastery was a medieval
Georgian Orthodox
The Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს სამოციქულო ავტოკეფალური მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესია, tr), commonly ...
monastery named after
Saint George in the village of
Ali (),
Ardahan Province
Ardahan Province ( tr, , ku, Parêzgeha Erdêxanê, ) is a province in the north-east of Turkey, bordering Georgia and Armenia. The provincial capital is the city of Ardahan.
Demographics
With 94,932 inhabitants in 2021, Ardahan was the third ...
, Turkey.
The complex was an important ecclesiastical center in the region and is frequently noticed among
primary sources. There are manuscripts depicting the rules of the monastic community. Architecturally, the most notable part of the complex is the main domed church whose only remaining part is its foundation. The monument was studied in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.
Founded either in the 10th or the 11th century AD, the monastery buildings were firmly preserved until the 1870s. Researchers visiting in the 1890s already remarked its poor condition. Locals had used the church stones for their houses and fences and as gravestones, also to build a mosque nearby. By 1920s the complex (incl. the domed church) had been perished.
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Georgian Orthodox churches in Turkey
Buildings and structures completed in the 11th century