Places
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Bagrati Cathedral
The cathedral of the Dormition consecrated by Bagrat III in 1003 on Ukimerioni Hill in Kutaisi: the first great cathedral of united Georgia and the place where...
Bedia Cathedral
An episcopal cathedral in the village of Bedia consecrated in 999 by Bagrat III, the burial place of the first king of united Georgia and of his mother Guranduk...
Dranda Cathedral
An early medieval domed cathedral on the bank of the Kodori, 23 kilometres from Sukhumi, built of brick with a broad drumless dome: the seat of the bishops of D...
Mokvi Cathedral
A cathedral built in 957–967 by Leon III, king of the Abkhazians, in the village of Mokvi: the seat of the bishops of Mokvi, a centre of Georgian letters from w...
Nikortsminda Cathedral
The principal church of Racha and one of the summits of Georgian stone carving: a six-apse domed church of St Nicholas raised in 1010–1014 on the order of Bagra...
Pitsunda Cathedral
A tenth-century cross-domed cathedral at Pitsunda, for centuries the seat of the Catholicoi of Abkhazia and today a concert hall with an organ installed in 1975...
Poti Cathedral
A reduced copy of Hagia Sophia in the centre of Poti: a neo-Byzantine cathedral for 2,000 worshippers built in 1906–1907 on the initiative of Niko Nikoladze to...
Ruisi Cathedral
The cathedral of the village of Ruisi in Kareli municipality, a cross-in-square church with a tall twelve-sided dome on the plain of Shida Kartli, beside the Go...
Samtavisi Cathedral
An eleventh-century cross-in-square cathedral in the village of Samtavisi in Kaspi municipality, on the left bank of the Lekhura river. It was built in 1030 by...
Tsaishi Cathedral
A domed cathedral of the Dormition some ten kilometres from Zugdidi on the first hills above the Colchian lowland: one of the oldest episcopal sees of Georgia,...
Tsalenjikha Cathedral
The cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour on a hill at Tsalenjikha, the ecclesiastical centre of the principality of Odishi and the burial place of th...
Urbnisi Cathedral
A large three-nave basilica in the village of Urbnisi in Kareli municipality, on the left bank of the Mtkvari, on the site of one of the chief cities of ancient...