Religious Sites in Ardahan: Top Places

The Monastery of the Virgin Mary of Tbeti is a ruined medieval Georgian Orthodox monastery. It was built in the historical territory of Georgia, and is now found in Turkey. It is located on the banks of the Imerkhevi river, and is 15 kilometres away from the present-day city of Şavşat.

Religious Sites

Religious Sites

Chaisi Church is a medieval, Georgian church located in the Turkish part of the historical Javakheti region. Today, it is located in the village of Kayabeyi, formerly known as Chaisi, which is part of the Çıldır District of Ardahan Province in Turkey. Until recently, it was used as a mosque.

Bana is a ruined early medieval cathedral in present-day Erzurum Province, eastern Turkey, in what had formerly been a historical marchland known to Armenians as Tayk and to Georgians as Tao. It is a large tetraconch design, surrounded by a near-rotunda polygonal ambulatory and marked with a cylindrical drum. Generally believed to have been constructed in the 7th century, based on an 11th-century chronicle it was reconstructed by Adarnase IV of Iberia at some point between 881 and 923.