• Thumbnail for Khopi Saint Nicholas Church
    The Saint Nicholas Church (Georgian: ხოფის წმინდა ნიკოლოზის ეკლესია, romanized: khopis ts'minda nik'olozis ek'lesia) is a ruined medieval church at the...
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  • Retrieved 14 December 2021. "ხოფის წმინდა ნიკოლოზის ეკლესია [Khopi Saint Nicholas Church]". Web-portal of Cultural Heritage. National Agency for Cultural...
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  • inscriptions (about 20). Msigkhua Mount near Primorskoe Samato Hill Anukhva Khopi Gudava Tsebelda Chlou (Jvari Pat'iosani) Mokvi Bedia Dikhazurga Tskelikari...
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    The Kldisubani St. George Church or Qarapi Saint Gevorg church (Georgian: კლდისუბნის წმ. გიორგის ეკლესია, Kldisubnis Tsminda Giorgis Eklesia; Armenian:...
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    including Saint Nino's Cross were brought here for safekeeping. During the Soviet era, all religious services were prohibited, but the church remained...
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    The Church of Kish (Azerbaijani: Kiş kilsəsi; also known from different sources as Church of Saint Elishe (Azerbaijani: Müqəddəs Yelisey kilsəsi,; Latinised...
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    the present day Cathedral of Saint George was built in the 11th century by Kvirike III of Kakheti, replacing an older church of St. George. It is considered...
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    Jvari Monastery (redirect from Jvari Church)
    Georgian church that has survived to the present day almost unchanged. The church became the founder of its type, the Jvari type of church architecture...
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    St. Nino Church of Alibeglo (Georgian: ალიბეგლოს წმინდა ნინოს ეკლესია) is a Georgian Orthodox Church located in Qakh District, northwestern Azerbaijan...
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  • Thumbnail for Anchiskhati Basilica
    [ˈantʃʰisχat’i]) is the oldest surviving church in Tbilisi, Georgia. It belongs to the Georgian Orthodox Church and dates from the sixth century. According...
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  • Thumbnail for Bachkovo Monastery
    Bachkovo Monastery (category Byzantine church buildings)
    Doomsday, painted by Zahari Zograf in 1850, is retained in the Saint Nicholas Church and is thought of as one of the most interesting works of art of...
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    Vardzia (category Georgian Orthodox churches in Samtskhe–Javakheti)
    intercessors, are paintings of saints and stylites. On the rear wall of the sanctuary, behind the altar, are Twelve Church Fathers. In the narthex are scenes...
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    transferred the church into the perpetual care of the Abkhazian Orthodox Church. From ancient times the church participated in an annual festival to Saint George...
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  • Saint Sarkis Church (Armenian: Սուրբ Սարգիս եկեղեցի), is an Armenian church in Harpukh Sulfuric Baths district of Old Tbilisi, Georgia. Destroyed by Lavrentiy...
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  • Thumbnail for Svetitskhoveli Cathedral
    Svetitskhoveli Cathedral (category Eastern Orthodox church buildings in Georgia (country))
    Orthodox world. The original church was built in 4th century AD during the reign of Mirian III of Kartli (Iberia). Saint Nino is said to have chosen the...
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  • Thumbnail for Holy Mother of God Church of Bethlehem, Tbilisi
    Armenian Quarter with Saint Bethlehem Church (above center) Church of Saint Stepanos of the Holy Virgins ("Lower Bethlehem Church") Saint Gevorg of Mughni...
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    Gagra into a spa town. On 9 January 1903 it was consecrated as the Church of Saint Hypatius. At the same time, the old fortress of Abaata was demolished...
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  • Thumbnail for Samtavro Monastery
    graves of Mirian III and the famous Georgian Saint monk Gabriel are located in the yard of Samtavro Church. The monastery was constructed in the northwestern...
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  • Thumbnail for Kamoyants Saint Gevork Church
    Kamoyants Saint Gevork Church (Armenian: Կամոյանց Սուրբ Գևորգ Եկեղեցի; Russian: Церковь Камоянц Св. Геворг) was an Armenian Apostolic church in Tbilisi...
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    Metekhi (category Georgian Orthodox churches in Tbilisi)
    martyr lady Saint Shushanik was buried. However, none of these structures have survived the Mongol invasion of 1235. The extant Metekhi Church of Assumption...
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    the 12 churches here, St Saba's Church, named after the saint whose name his father had adopted, one of the most architecturally important churches of its...
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    Тхаба–Ерды; Georgian: ტყობა-ერდი) is the ruins of the largest medieval Christian church in Ingushetia, Russian Federation. It is located deep in the Assin Gorge...
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    where it commands views of the Greater Caucasus mountains. The extant church – a three-nave basilica with three protruding apses – was originally built...
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  • Thumbnail for Tbilisi Sioni Cathedral
    Tbilisi Sioni Cathedral (category 12th-century Eastern Orthodox church buildings)
    capital of Georgia. Following a medieval Georgian tradition of naming churches after specific places in the Holy Land, the Sioni Cathedral bears the name...
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  • Thumbnail for Kurmukhi Church
    The monastery is currently inactive. The Church hosts annual Christian feast of Kurmukhoba, the festival of Saint George at Kurmukhi, which is particularly...
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    Spirit), was built in the 8th–9th century on the site of an older church (in which Saint Zenon had been buried). In 1616 the Persian invaders led by Shah...
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  • Thumbnail for Lekit church
    III visited Lekarti Saint Nino church, then part of the Kak-Eliseni district of the Kakheti province of Kingdom of Georgia. Church of Kish Bana cathedral...
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    the Gelati monastery is located. Later, the Orthodox Church of Georgia recognized them as Saints, and in the 11th century, the king Bagrat IV of Georgia...
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    saw further development under the guidance of the 9th-century Georgian saint Hilarion the Iberian. The convent was particularly patronized by the Georgian...
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    as a renovator, not a builder of the church. This view, now shared by some art scholars, dates the Bana church – clearly modeled on the contemporaneous...
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