Batheos Rhyakos Monastery

Batheos Rhyakos Monastery was a Byzantine-era monastery near medieval Trigleia in Bithynia (modern Tirilye in Turkey). It is known locally as Aya Sotiri.^[1]

Batheos Rhyakos Monastery

Monastery information
Other names	Aya Sotiri
Site
Location	Tirilye, Turkey

The church of the monastery had an east-west oriented rectangular naos, with a rounded apse in the north part of the east end and a narthex at the west end.^[2] The building’s exterior dimensions measured 16 by 9 meters.^[3]

In the 1880s, the monastery was described as “neglected,” with only the four walls of the church and some scattered columns remaining.^[4] However, In 1910, it seems to have been described as “recently restored.”^[5]

When the area was cleared of brush and mapped in 1987, the monastery was in ruins and mostly rubble; then, in 1988, the landowner cleared the area with heavy machinery and built a shed.^[6] In 2017, piles of stones from the walls remained.^[7]

The monastery is also known as the Monastery of the Transfiguration of Christ the Savior^{[citation needed]} (Greek: Μονή Μεταμορφόσεως Σωτήρος Χριστού^{[citation needed]} ), the Soteros or Savior Monastery^{[citation needed]} (Μονή Σωτήρος^{[citation needed]}).