The Likhauri Church is a Georgian Orthodox Church at the Ozurgeti Municipality in the Guria region, Georgia. It was built in the 12th century. The Likhauri...
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Likhauri (Georgian: ლიხაური) is a village in the Ozurgeti district of Guria in western Georgia. Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia Vol. 6, p. 270, 1977. Wikivoyage...
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Cathedral. The same year he became dean of Likhauri Church (Ozurgeti municipality) and of Achi St. George Church. February 2, 1994, he was ordained archpriest...
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1352, which credited him, along with his wife Anna, with building the Likhauri Church in Guria. Thus, at that time, Guria appears to have been a fief of...
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These are the castles of Askani and Likhauri. Askani Castle Among the medieval church buildings are the Church of the Creator, which is the center of...
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Gergeti Trinity Church (Georgian: გერგეტის სამების ეკლესია - Gergetis Samebis eklesia) is a popular name for Holy Trinity Church near the village of Stepantsminda...
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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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The Church of Kish (Azerbaijani: Kiş kilsəsi; Georgian: გიშის ეკლესია), also known from different sources as Church of Saint Elishe (Azerbaijani: Müqəddəs...
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Samtavro Monastery (redirect from Samtavro Church)
Orthodox Christian monastery complex that combines Samtavro Transfiguration Church and Nunnery of St. Nino in Mtskheta, Georgia. Built presumably in the 4th...
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Vardzia (category Georgian Orthodox churches in Samtskhe–Javakheti)
cultural center, a place of significant literary and artistic work. The Church of the Dormition, dating to the 1180s during the golden age of Tamar and...
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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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Alaverdi Monastery (redirect from Alaverdi church)
built in the 11th century by Kvirike III of Kakheti, replacing an older church of St. George. It is considered one of the four Great Cathedrals of the...
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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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Racha, Georgia, early 11th century Icon of St. George and the dragon from Likhauri (Ozurgeti Municipality), Georgia, 12th century A 15th-century Georgian...
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Gelati Monastery (category Georgian Orthodox churches in Georgia (country))
Christian faith in Georgia; some murals found inside the Gelati Monastery church date back to the 12th century. The monastery was inscribed as a UNESCO World...
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The Peroniti Church (Georgian: პირონითის ეკლესია) is an abandoned Orthodox Church located in the village of Peroniti (Çamlıköy) in Hopa, Artvin Province...
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Bachkovo Monastery (category Byzantine church buildings)
and is directly subordinate to the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. The monastery is known and appreciated for the unique combination of Byzantine...
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Khandzta (category Georgian Orthodox churches in Turkey)
during the reign of Ashot I, a stone church was built to replace it by the nobleman Gabriel Dapanchuli. The present church building seems to be a replacement...
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4704; 46.62096 Datuna Church (Avar: Датуна гьатӀан; Georgian: დათუნას ეკლესია; Russian: Датунский храм) is the only medieval church that survives in modern...
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Bolnisi Sioni (redirect from Bolnisi Sioni church)
built in 478–493. It is the oldest extant church building in Georgia. Bishop David was the overseeing church leader for the construction of Bolnisi Sioni...
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tower, is mostly in ruins. Within the complex are two churches among other buildings. The older Church of the Virgin, which abuts a tall square tower, has...
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Bana cathedral (redirect from Bana Episcopal Church)
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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Anchiskhati Basilica (redirect from Anchiskhati Church)
(Georgian: ანჩისხატი) 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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Sapara Monastery (section St. Mary's Assumption Church)
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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Metekhi (category Georgian Orthodox churches in Tbilisi)
overlooks the Mtkvari river. The neighborhood is home to the eponymous Metekhi Church of Assumption. The district was one of the earliest inhabited areas on the...
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The Kurmukhi Church of St. George (Georgian: ქურმუხის წმინდა გიორგის ეკლესია, Azerbaijani: Kürmük məbədi) is a Georgian Orthodox Church located in the...
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The Church of St. George of Ilori (Georgian: ილორის წმ. გიორგის ეკლესია) is a Medieval, originally Georgian Orthodox Church in the village of Ilori, in...
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The Ambara church (Georgian: ამბარას ეკლესია) is located near village Myussera in the Gudauta District, Abkhazia/Georgia, on the cape of Miusera, close...
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basilica was built at the end of the fourth century. As the founder of the church, scholars name Bakur, an Iberian prince, grandfather of the famous Peter...
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Catherine, George, Theodore) Adjara Kvirike Skhalta Guria Achi Erketi Jumati Likhauri Shemokmedi Imereti Bagrati Bajiti Chala Chikha Darkveti Derchi Devadze...
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