In 1884, the Greek scholar Konstantinos Vrissis visited the area and conjectured that it was Kamani, not Comana Pontica, where John Chrysostom died and was initially buried.

In the 1880s, under the Russian rule, a Christian convent was founded there, but it fell in disuse with the arrival of the Soviet power in the region.

In July 1993, during the War in Abkhazia, the monastery was stormed by the Abkhaz separatist forces; Yuri Anua and the Georgian priest Andria Kurashvili were killed.

[2] In 2001, a group of Abkhaz monks returned to the Kamani monastery, which was transferred by the Sokhumi government, in 2011, in possession of the self-proclaimed Abkhazian Orthodox Church.

[4] Georgia has inscribed the church on the list of cultural heritage and reported, in 2015, the physical condition of the monument as poor.