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# Restoration of a tenth-century church completed in the Georgian village of Didi Kldeisi in Tetritskaro Municipality
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/v-gruzinskom-sele-didi-kldeisi-v-tetritskaroiskom-munitsipalitete-zavershilas-restavratsiia-tserkvi-x-veka/
- Published: 2026-09-25T12:57:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:25:04.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Architecture, The East, Heritage

Restoration of a tenth-century church has been completed in the Georgian village of Didi Kldeisi in Tetritskaro Municipality. Tetritskaro Municipality lies in the Kvemo Kartli region in the south of Georgia. After its restoration, the church was consecrated in honour of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God.

The consecration was performed by Metropolitan Ananias of Manglisi and Tetritskaro. He conducted the rite on the feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God, and then, together with the clergy of the diocese, celebrated the festal liturgy. The Georgian Orthodox Church follows the Julian calendar, and therefore marks the Nativity of the Mother of God on 21 September by the modern calendar.

Scholars regard the church as a monument of medieval Georgian architecture and date it to the tenth and eleventh centuries. The builders originally raised a single-nave church, that is, one with a single longitudinal interior space not divided into parts by columns or piers. Later, additional rooms were built onto the south side of the church, and later still rooms were added to the north side as well.

Before the restoration the church was in a half-ruined state. The vault of the main space had collapsed, sections of the walls had crumbled, and the later annexes had also been damaged.

In and around the church there survive fragments of decorative elements, stones bearing Old Georgian inscriptions, and medieval relief gravestones. The inscriptions on the church's stones are of particular interest to researchers. Among the names mentioned in them is that of Kavtar Tbeli, a representative of the Georgian nobility. This man is associated with the events of the late tenth century, when part of the feudal lords of Kartli rose against the establishment of Bagrat III's rule over Kartli.

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