Taksiyarhis Monument Museum

Taksiyarhis is the first church of Ayvalık, and it is thought to have been built in three phases. It began in the fifteenth century as a small church. The second phase produced a two-storey basilica with three domes, dated by the 1753 inscription above the southern garden entrance and by the fresco above the bema showing Paul and Peter offering the building to God. An 1844 inscription over the entrance points to the third-phase basilica, with a barrel vault and a completely timber roof structure.

Inside, three main doors open from the narthex into a three-aisled church. In the central nave a stucco pulpit is decorated with a relief of a lion and reached by a spiral stair. The iconostasis is carved in marble relief with gold decoration and marble icons telling the life of Christ. On the upper floor, a U-shaped wooden gallery with 16 windows served as the gynaikeion, the women's section.

Earthquakes damaged the building over time, and repairs changed the decoration in different periods, something visible in the wall paintings. After serving from 1927 as a tobacco monopoly warehouse, the church was restored in 2012 and opened as a museum in 2013.