The church is in use today as an olive oil factory. It stands in the middle of Ayvalık, hemmed in by houses and narrow streets.
Its name is double. Built of stone with Ionic columns in the nineteenth century, it is the Fenoremeni church; Orthodox Christians call it Ayazma, after the holy water inside it.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Balıkesir as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 4.9 °C in January to 25.7 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in January (87 mm) and lightest in August (5 mm). Long-term means for 1999-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
