Berta monastery

The Berta monastery (Georgian: ბერთა, Turkish: Berta Manastırı) is a former Georgian Orthodox monastery at the village of Ortaköy (formerly Berta), Artvin Province, Turkey. It was built in the 8th or 9th century. The surviving structure is now used as a mosque.

History

The Monastery of the Mother of God in Berta or Bertay is first mentioned by the 10th-century Georgian author Giorgi Merchule as a part of Georgian monastic communities operating under the guidance of Grigol of Khandzta (759–861) in what then was the Georgian Bagratid principality of Klarjeti. The monastery sat on a hill overlooking what is now the village of Ortaköy and consisted of several structures, of which the main church was a domed structure faced with smoothly finished small blocks. After the Ottoman takeover of the area in the 16th century, the church was abandoned. In the 19th century, the remaining edifice was converted into a mosque and a minaret was added to it. The ruins of a large rectangular refectory have survived to the north of the former church.

Berta

Berta is a female Germanic name or may also be a colloquial shortening of Alberta or Roberta.

Berta may refer to:

See also

Ortaköy, Artvin

Ortaköy (formerly, Berta) is a village in the Artvin Central District, Artvin Province, Turkey. Situated at 41°15′N 41°59′E / 41.250°N 41.983°E / 41.250; 41.983, its distance to Artvin is 35 kilometres (22 mi). As of 2013, the population of the village was 1,080.

History

The area around Ortaköy was a part of the medieval Georgian principality of Klarjeti and housed the flourishing monastic center Berta, which was founded in the 9th century. The area fell to the eventual Ottoman conquest in the latter half of the 16th century. It was taken over by the Russian Empire in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, but reverted back to the Turkish control in the aftermath of World War I. The surviving edifice of the Georgian monastery has been used as a mosque.

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