nopasanada's video: Ishkhani Monasterio abandonado en el este deTurquia Citr en C15

Ishkani is a ruins of Christian monastery in Turkey in the village of Arpacik province of Artvin. It was one of the important spiritual centers in the medieval kingdom Tao-Klarjeti. Only the magnificent church and the chapel have survived. The first mention of the monastery is in a Georgian manuscript dating from 951, which is now kept in Jerusalem. It is claimed that a monastery was founded on the site of a previous church. The first church was supposedly damaged during the 7th century Arab invasions. Georgian inscriptions inside the church and on the facade indicate different periods of restoration, from 917 to 1032. The monastery used to be one of the five patriarchates of Tao-Klarjeti and its church functioned as a cathedral until the seventeenth century. It was used as the headquarters of Ottoman officers during the Russo-Turkish War in the 19th century, then it became a mosque and remained so until 1983. In 1987 the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey registered Ishkhhan as a national cultural monument and the site is now protected. In 2013, the Monastery was renovated. The inscription in the Georgian and Armenian language placed at the entrance of the chapel, says that King Gurgen I dedicated the chapel to the Holy Mother of God in the year 1006. The interior walls of the chapel were covered with frescoes. Only the figures in the apse can be identified, including a representation of the enthroned Christ.