Panagia is a cape located in the Temryuk district of the Krasnodar Territory, in the southwest of the Taman Peninsula, 12 km from the village of Taman.
This is the eastern entrance cape to the Kerch Strait from the Black Sea. The cape, about 30 meters high, is a reef that was built by bryozoans - the inhabitants of the ancient warm sea. It consists entirely of their petrified skeletons. For many thousands of years, the ancient reef was buried under a layer of clay. Now the sea is gradually "digging out" the ancient relief. The sea captures approximately 1 meter of shore each year.
It has been given the status of a natural monument. The boundaries and its buffer zone were not established and were not marked on the ground.
The border between the Black Sea and the Kerch Strait of the Sea of Azov runs along a straight line drawn between Cape Takil on the Kerch Peninsula and Cape Panagia on the Taman Peninsula. Thus, Cape Panagia is washed by the Azov Sea from the north, and the Black Sea from the south.
The term "panagia" (Greek Παναγία - "all-holy") originally belonged to the image of the Mother of God. The penetration of Christianity into the Northern Black Sea region is associated with the preaching of Christianity in the North Caucasus by the Apostle Andrew the First-Called in the 1st century BC. n. e. Cape Panagia is possibly the site of early Christianity (1st-3rd centuries) on the territory of present-day Russia.
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