Jvari Monastery is a sixth-century Georgian Orthodox monastery near Mtskheta, eastern Georgia. Jvari is a rare case of an Early Medieval Georgian church that has survived to the present day almost unc
Jvari Monastery
Jvari Monastery. View from the southeast
The view of the dome and the squinches inside the church
Ascension of the Cross, bas-relief above the southern entrance of the Jvari Monastery
Saint Nino was a woman who preached Christianity in the territory of the Kingdom of Iberia in what is now Georgia. Her preaching led to the Christianization of Iberia.
Icon of Saint Nino
Mikhail Sabinin — Holy Virgin Blesses St. Nino (1882)
Bodbe Monastery near Signagi where the remains of St. Nino are enshrined.