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Pelekete monastery The monastery disappears thereafter from the sources, but is identified by modern scholars with the ruins of a monastery 5 km west from the town of Tirilye and dedicated to Saint John the Theologian. Locals today call it Aya Yani or Ayani, a corrupted form of its Greek name, meaning "Saint John".
Pelekete monastery The Monastery of Saint John the Theologian (), commonly known as the Pelekete monastery (; ), is a ruined Byzantine-era monastery near modern Tirilye in Turkey (medieval Trigleia in Bithynia).
Pelekete monastery The monastery dates back to the 8th century, but its exact date of establishment is unknown. Its common name, ""Pelekete"", means "hewn with an axe" in Greek, and refers to its location on a steep rock. The monastery was a centre of iconodule opposition to Byzantine Iconoclasm, and in 763/4, it was attacked and burned down by the fanatically iconoclast governor Michael Lachanodrakon. Lachanodrakon tortured the monastery's "hegoumenos", Theosteriktos, and other monks, 38 of whom were buried alive at Ephesus. The monastery was restored towards the end of the century after the end of the first period of Iconoclasm, and a certain Makarios became its "hegoumenos". With the resumption of Iconoclasm after 813, he was exiled and imprisoned, but the monks of Pelekete continued to oppose Iconoclasm.
Tirilye The ruin of the monastery is far from the town and is called Hagios Ioannes Theologos (Pelekete) Aya Yani Monastery, which is known as the Ayani Ranch by the public. The monastery was built in 709 and used until 1922; only the ruins of the church and walls are remaining today.
History of Roman and Byzantine domes A small, unisex monastic community in Bithynia, near Constantinople, may have developed the cross-in-square plan church during the Iconoclastic period, which would explain the plan's small scale and unified naos. The ruined church of St. John at Pelekete monastery is an early example. Monks had supported the use of icons, unlike the government-appointed secular clergy, and monasticism would become increasingly popular. A new type of privately funded urban monastery developed from the 9th century on, which may help to explain the small size of subsequent building.