Shemokmedi Monastery

Shemokmedi Monastery
Location within Guria Location within Georgia
Religion
Affiliation	Georgian Orthodox Church
Location
Location	Ozurgeti Municipality, Georgia
Interactive map of Shemokmedi Monastery
Coordinates	41°54′26″N 42°03′46″E
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.