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Katskhi Pillar Monastery

Small stone church and monastery buildings with red-tiled roofs on top of the Katskhi Pillar, a limestone column with a long metal ladder up its face, rising out of green forest in Imereti, Georgia
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Katskhi Pillar Monastery

SeenJun 2025

Creator unconfirmed · Katskhi · Georgia · Medieval hermitage; restored by 2009

Photo: Alexkom000 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0), 2025-06-17. Full photograph shown.

Katskhi Pillar is a limestone monolith in western Georgia crowned by a small church and monastic buildings. Official tourism sources describe a long ascetic tradition, while a dated 2025 photograph shows the restored complex still standing. georgia.travel · en.wikipedia.org · kutaisi.travel · commons.wikimedia.org Checked

💡 4 things to know

  1. Forty metres highGeorgia Travel measures the limestone pillar at about 40 metres. georgia.travel Checked
  2. Medieval hermitageLater archaeological studies are reported to date the summit hermitage to the 9th–10th centuries; Kutaisi tourism still gives the earlier 5th–6th-century attribution. en.wikipedia.org · kutaisi.travel Conflicting
  3. Climb restrictedKutaisi tourism says ordinary visitors are not allowed to climb the pillar. kutaisi.travel Checked
  4. Documented in 2025A freely licensed image records the restored complex on 17 June 2025. commons.wikimedia.org Checked

📍 Where it is

Katskhi village, Chiatura Municipality, Katskhi, Georgia georgia.travel · en.wikipedia.org Checked

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🗓️ Sightings

  1. By 2009

    State-funded restoration reported complete

  2. 202517 Jun

    Pillar and summit buildings photographed

Each stamp links to its evidence. Green stamps are dated photographs; amber stamps are historical records or reports. Photo dates are not construction dates.

✅ The facts

Height
About 40 metres georgia.travel Checked
Historic complex
Dating differs: 5th–6th or 9th–10th centuries en.wikipedia.org · kutaisi.travel Conflicting
Location
Katskhi, Imereti, Georgia georgia.travel Checked
Visitor access
No public climb to the summit kutaisi.travel Checked
Dated photograph
17 June 2025 commons.wikimedia.org Checked
Dated sighting
Seen Jun 2025 commons.wikimedia.org Checked

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