St. George's Church
The first temple on St. Nino's grave was built by King Mirian in the 4th century. In the 5th century, the temple was expanded by Vakhtang Gorgasali, and it acquired the form of a three-nave basilica in the 8th-9th centuries. In the Middle Ages, the coronations of the Kakhetian kings took place here. By the beginning of the 19th century, the diocese included more than a hundred churches. According to an inscription in the church, in the 1820s it was thoroughly repaired and painted. The murals are done in oil paints. They were reinforced and cleaned in 1997. The church walls feature scenes from the Old and New Testaments, stories from the lives of St. George and St. Nino, and two portraits of John of Bodbe. The iconostasis of the Bodbe temple, as well as the wall paintings, were created in 1823 by the Metropolitan of Bodbe, Ioane Makashvili (of Bodbe).
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