Agios Sergios
Ruins · Turkey
- Abandoned
- 1923
- Founded
- 780
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.385, 28.791
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: The Monastery of Saint Sergios of Medikion, commonly simply known as the Medikion Monastery, and later as the Monastery of the Holy Fathers is a ruined Byzantine-era monastery near modern Tirilye in Turkey.
History
The Monastery of Saint Sergios of Medikion, commonly simply known as the Medikion Monastery, and later as the Monastery of the Holy Fathers is a ruined Byzantine-era monastery near modern Tirilye in Turkey. It is best known for the role its founders played in opposing Byzantine Iconoclasm. Built in 780, it was revered by the local Orthodox population until the Greco-Turkish population exchange in 1922.