The church on the Muzadere plateau is in a badly damaged state, and it is remote: it stands on the top of high, broken ground ten kilometres south of the township of Topçam, in the Mesudiye district of Ordu, and Mesudiye itself is 114 kilometres from Ordu.
What is left is rectangular in plan and single-naved, with a wide apse on the east front. It is thought to have been built in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Getting there
- Access
- Ordu to Mesudiye is 114 kilometres. The church stands on a high, broken ridge on the Muzadere plateau, ten kilometres south of the town of Topçam.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Ordu as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 7.1 °C in January to 23.6 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in October (131 mm) and lightest in May (57 mm). Long-term means for 1959-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
