Mountain Pillar of Life

The “Pillar of Katskhi”, known as the “symbol of loneliness”, rises 40 meters in the mountains of Western Georgia. Twenty years in prayer and solitude spent on top of Father Maxim. Later, the church on the pillar was named after Maxim the Confessor.

Currently, on top is located the Savior-Ascension monastery, an ancient church, an ancient wine cellar. The opportunity to climb to the top is only for men by permission of the abbot.

You can get to the Pillar of Katskhi by car - from Kutaisi 62 km, from Tbilisi 200 km.