Bieti church
ბიეთის ღვთისმშობლის ეკლესია | |
.jpg) Ruins of the Bieti church. | |
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| 41°44′35″N 43°06′21″E / 41.743056°N 43.105833°E | |
| Location | Akhaltsikhe Municipality, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Georgia |
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| Type | Cross-in-square church (ruined) |
The Bieti church of the Mother of God (
pastophoria remained standing. After some preparatory cleaning and conservation works, reconstruction was commenced in 2019. The church is inscribed on the list of Georgia's Immovable Cultural Monuments of National Significance.[1] There is another medieval Georgian church known as Bieti situated in what is now the disputed territory of South Ossetia.[2]
History
Dmitry Yermakov
c. 1899..jpg)
The Bieti church is located on the territory of a now-extinct eponymous village in the Tsinaubani gorge, some 2 km north of the modern village of
Ekvtime Taqaishvili. Already heavily damaged, the building fell to ruin after the dome collapsed in 1930.[3] After some preliminary cleaning and conservation works at the church, a major reconstruction program was launched in 2019 and is projected to be completed in three years.[4]
Layout
The Bieti church, measuring 11.8 × 17.7 m, was built of dressed stone in a cross-in-square plan, with the centrally located and outsized
asomtavruli script. One of them, now lost, commemorated the construction of the chapel in 1493.[3] The art historian Vakhtang Beridze classifies the church as belonging to a group of the domed churches of medieval Samtskhe, which also includes Sapara, Zarzma, and Chule.[3]
References
- ^ "List of Immovable Cultural Monuments" (PDF) (in Georgian). National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ISBN 978-9941-15-896-4.
- ^ ISBN 978-9941-0-6774-7.)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ "ახალციხის ბიეთის ღვითსმშობლის სახელობის ეკლესია რესტავრაციისთვის მოამზადეს" [The Bieti church of the Mother of God in Akhaltsikhe prepared for reconstruction]. region.ge (in Georgian). SK News. 1 August 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2019.