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Akvaneba

14.08.2013 15:38

Georgian architectural monument of VI c. in Kvemo Kartli, in Bolnisi region (coordinates: 41.265560 44.273071) is located in the 5th km of Bolnisi- Dmanisi road, in about 200 m from the road. The monument is badly damaged. Hall church with apse and eukterion with apse in the south from it are accommodated in right-angled shape from outside. Their walls are unusually thick for small buildings (110 cm) and are finished with straightly laid dark yellow sandstone. Out of the decoration of the church, curved imposts of altar conch are remarkable, as well as relief with Christian symbols curved in the altar and on the architraves of one of the doors, which, by their general composition, as well as techniques and ways of use of individual motives, stands close to the group of monuments of Bolnisi’s Sioni. The tops of the windows from outside were also decorated (presently the decoration doesn’t exist). The external dimensions of the church are: length – 9 meters, width - 8,5 m, assumed height inside – about 6 meters.