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Samtavisi Cathedral

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and a skillful architect Hilarion, the son of Vane Kanchaeli, who also authored the nearby church of Ashuriani. The Cathedral was heavily damaged by a series of earthquakes, when the dome and partially the western wall and the pillars collapsed. According to the inscription on the western faรงade, above the window, which says "The secondary builder of the temple was the daughter of king of the kings and the wife of Amilakhor, Gayane", the Cathedral was first partially reconstructed in the 15th-16th century. The noble Georgian family
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can be found up in the right arch. The arcading is also spread on lateral faรงades. The southern faรงade has remnants of portal. The western faรงade is plain with two windows. Their ornamentation was previously on the former dome and look rather unharmonious on the wall. Western and eastern faรงades have
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church. It illustrates a Georgian interpretation of the cross-in-square form which set an example for many churches built in the heyday of medieval Georgia. It currently has only southern portal, but presumably also had northern and western ones. The dome rests on the altar projections and two free
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missionary Isidore in 572 and later rebuilt in the 10th century. Neither of these buildings has survived however. The earliest extant structures date to the eleventh century, the main edifice being built in 1030 as revealed by a now lost stone inscription. The cathedral was built by a local bishop
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Beyond the main church, the Samtavisi complex includes a badly damaged two-storied bishop's residence, a small church (5.8ั…3.2m), and a three-storied bell-tower (5.7ั…7.3m) attached to the 3-5m high fence made of stone and brick. The bell-tower, built into northern wall, dates to the 16th-17th
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The exterior is distinguished by the liberal use of ornamental blind arcading. The apses do not project, but their internal position is marked by deep recesses in the wall. Artistically, the most rounded portion of the church is its five-arched eastern faรงade, dominated by the two niches and
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centuries. Its ground floor has a gate, the middle floor was for the guards and the upper the belfry. All other structures date to the 17th-18th centuries. Original wall, surrounding the cathedral, did not survive. The current wall includes a rounded tower with semicircular teeth.
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enlivened by a bold ornate cross motif, which is a harmonic continuation of dynamic arcading. The central axis of the faรงade has a high cross, ornamented window and rather characteristic motif of two rombs, copied in later churches. The most elaborate decoration, a relief of
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is unproportionally narrow. It has twelve window, seven of them are real, other five imitated. Their original ornamentation, found currently on western faรงade, was richer than subsequently reconstructed. The central altar
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on eastern faรงade. The masterly decorated eastern faรงade is the only surviving original structure. Other alterations included removal of portals, widening and deepening of connections between the faรงade quadras.
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and his wife ordered new frescoes to be painted by Samtavisi bishop Meliton, as documented by inscription on the apse fresco. It was reconstructed again in the 19th century by the architect
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is found in the upper part of the apse, and below it, bishops with open scrolls and deacons. Dominant colors are dark brown, blue, yellow and dark grey.
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pillars. In contrast to earlier Georgian churches, the drum of the dome is taller surmounted by a conical roof. The reconstructed dome
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of the Georgian Orthodox Church. The church is a typical example and the founder of the Georgian interpretation of the
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are in eastern part. The central nave is connected to the lateral naves in the western part through the arcade.
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inscriptions, telling about the construction year and the architect, and the subsequent reconstruction.
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The cathedral is located on the left bank of the Lekhura River, some 11 km of the town of
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churches. It was built in the period of decorative and artistic bloom in the
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The original frescoes of the 11th century, found under the apse
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played significant role in the history of the church. In 1679,
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The Samtavisi Cathedral is a prolonged rectangular 4-piered
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village. The cathedral is now one of the centers of the
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Index


Georgian
Georgian Orthodox
cathedral
Georgia
Shida Kartli
Tbilisi
Igoeti
Eparchy of Samtavisi and Gori
cross-in-square
architecture of Georgia
Kaspi
Assyrian
Amilakhvari
Givi Amilakhvari
Ripardi
gryphons
cruciform domed
tholobate
apse
prothesis
sacristy
gryphon
plaster
Christ Pantocrator
seraphs
tholobates
archangels
Deesis
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