Gialia Monastery

The Gialia Monastery is a ruined Georgian Orthodox monastery from the medieval period. It is located in the village of Gialia, Paphos District, northwest Cyprus. The monastery is dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

Located in a forest some five kilometers from the coast near the small town of Polis Chrysochous, the ruins were identified, in 1981, by the Georgian scholar Wachtang Djobadze of California State University on the basis of the medieval Georgian accounts. It was not, however, until 2006 that a systematic archaeological research followed after the Georgian and Cypriot governments agreed to jointly investigate the ruins.