Mount Auxentius

Mount Auxentius
Mount St. Auxentius
Kayış Dağı
Mount Auxentius (Kayış Dağı) in winter
Highest point
Elevation428 m (1,404 ft)
Coordinates40°58′15″N 29°09′51″E / 40.97083°N 29.16417°E / 40.97083; 29.16417
Geography
Map
LocationIstanbul
CountryTurkey
Auxentius of Bithynia, whom the mountain is named after

Mount Auxentius (also known as Mount St. Auxentius, Mount Auxentios, or Mount Scopas), today known as Kayış Dağı in Turkish, is a mountain located in the eastern outskirts of Istanbul, Turkey, in Kayışdağı neighborhood. Its summit is 428 metres above sea level.[1] The mountain is named after Auxentius of Bithynia.

The mountain was home to Christian monks and ascetics during the Byzantine period.[2] Byzantine Christian monks who lived on the mountain included Saint Stephen the New (c. 713–764)[3] and Saint Macarius of Mount Auxentius (died 768).[4]

  1. ^ Della Dora, Veronica (2016). Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium. Cambridge. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-316-48838-6. OCLC 938434170.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Speake, Graham (2018). A history of the Athonite Commonwealth : the spiritual and cultural diaspora of Mount Athos. New York. ISBN 978-1-108-34922-2. OCLC 1041501028.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Della Dora, Veronica (2016). Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium. Cambridge. p. 246. ISBN 978-1-316-48838-6. OCLC 938434170.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Μακάριος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας. 17 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.