Amenapırgiç Monastery

Amenapırgiç Armenian Church or Kaymaklı Monastery is a historical Armenian monastery founded in the 15th century and located in Trabzon. It was used as the most important place of worship for the Armenians of the Trabzon region at the time of the monastery, but after the 1915 Armenian massacre, it was ruined and is used as a farm place today. From the complex to the present day, only church ruins, a chapel and gravestones called haçkar, placed inside the walls, remained after the Crimea. The monastery was built in 1424 by the Hoca Sıtepanos Şemsedli at the time of the Trabzon Empire. The monastery was called Kaymaklı Monastery since there was a milk fountain in the jamatun of the monastery. The monastery was attacked in the 1915 Armenian Crimea and was used as a monastery concentration camp to exile Trabzon Armenians. The monastery was not protected by the state and was left to itself, and a farm was placed on its land. A house was built on the ruins of the bell tower. Most of the historical frescoes that were painted in the 17th century have rotted.