Shemokmedi Monastery | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Georgian Orthodox Church |
Location | |
Location | Ozurgeti Municipality, Georgia |
Geographic coordinates | 41°54′26″N 42°3′46″E / 41.90722°N 42.06278°E |
Architecture | |
Type | Monastery, church, castle |
Style | Georgian |
The Shemokmedi monastery (Georgian: შემოქმედის მონასტერი) is a Georgian Orthodox monastery located at the village of Shemokmedi in Georgia's southwestern region of Guria. Founded in the 15th century, the Shemokmedi monastery functioned as a seat of a bishopric and burial ground of the Gurieli princely dynasty. It was a safe-house of church treasures and, over the centuries, had accumulated an extensive collection of various objects from other Georgian monasteries. Parts of the collection, which survived the 19th-century robbers, are now on display in Georgia's museums.