ChurchZedazeni Monastery
Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Georgia
Approximate location – not yet verified.
Zedazeni Monastery is a monument of medieval Georgian architecture and a monastic complex, is located northeast of Mtskheta, on the left bank of the Aragvi River, on the slope of Zedazeni Mountain of the forested Saguramo Ridge. According to historical tradition, a pagan idol of Zaden stood here, on whose site, in the 540s, one of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers, John, founded a Christian monastery.