Alaverdoba

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Festival at the Alaverdi Cathedral, by Grigory Gagarin, 1847

Alaverdoba (

suffix –oba designating attribution. The festival lasts for several days, climaxing on 28 September, the feast day of St. Joseph of Alaverdi of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers
, the 6th-century founder of the cathedral.

Historically Alaverdoba lasted for three weeks in a three-step cycle, reflecting pre-Christian cults related to

Giorgi Shengelaya’s 1962 semi-documentary Alaverdoba.[2]

Alaverdoba survived the

Pankisi Gorge.[3]

References

  1. ISBN 0-404-16406-4
  2. ISBN 2-8251-0441-8
  3. ^ Kurtsikidze, Shorena & Chikovani, Vakhtang (2002), Georgia's Pankisi Gorge: An Ethnographic Survey Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, p. 26. Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Working Paper Series
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