Shemokmedi Monastery

Shemokmedi Monastery
Church in Shemokmedi Monastery
Religion
Affiliation	Georgian Orthodox Church
Location
Location	Ozurgeti Municipality, Georgia
Shown within Guria Show map of Guria Shemokmedi Monastery (Georgia) Show map of Georgia
Geographic coordinates	41°54′26″N 42°3′46″E / 41.90722°N 42.06278°E / 41.90722; 42.06278
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.