Church of St. Simon the Canaanite, New Athos

The Church of St. Simeon the Canaanite (Georgian: წმინდა სვიმონ კანანელის სახელობის ტაძარი) is located near the town of New Athos in Gudauta District, Abkhazia/Georgia, dating from the 9th or 10th century.

[6] At the time when the Georgian historian Dimitri Bakradze visited it in the 1850s, the church was abandoned, but still standing except for the collapsed dome.

[8] The church suffered greatly when the local landlord, Major Hasan Margani removed its blocks of stone for the construction of his own mansion.

The church is adorned with images of Christian symbols such as a fish, lion, and cross curved in relief.

[6] This article about a church building or other Christian place of worship in Georgia is a stub.

The church before the 1880s reconstruction