Lagurka
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The Kala church of Saints Cyricus and Julitta, locally known as Lagurka, is a medieval church in the Mestia Municipality in Georgia's region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti. The area is part of the highland
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Martyrdom of St. Julitta. A fresco from Lagurka.
Iprari church
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The Iprari church of the Archangels, or Tarngzel as it is locally known is an 11th-century Georgian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Mestia in Upper Svaneti. Architecturally an unremarkable hall ch
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…names the donors—the aznauri of the Kala community—and mentions a painter whose name is reconstructed—through the analogy with the two Svan churches of Iprari and Nakipari—as Tevdore. The paintings in the conch and iconostasis, damaged by an earthquake, were restored at a later date by the certain Giorgi, son…
Fresco of St. George from Iprari.
Theodore Stratelates. A fresco from Iprari.
Archangel Michael. A 12th-13th century icon from the Iprari iconostasis.