Zarzma monastery

Zarzma Monastery of Transfiguration
Georgian: ზარზმის მონასტერი
The monastic church of Transfiguration at Zarzma
Religion
AffiliationGeorgian Orthodox Church
Location
Locationvillage of Zarzma in Adigeni Municipality, Samtskhe-Javakheti region, Georgia
Zarzma monastery is located in Georgia
Zarzma monastery
Shown within Georgia
Zarzma monastery is located in Samtskhe-Javakheti
Zarzma monastery
Zarzma monastery (Samtskhe-Javakheti)
Geographic coordinates41°40′47″N 42°39′14″E / 41.67972°N 42.65389°E / 41.67972; 42.65389
Architecture
TypeChurch
Stylecross-in-square
CompletedChurch: 8th century,
renovated 14th century.
Dome(s)1

The Zarzma Monastery of Transfiguration (Georgian: ზარზმის მონასტერი, zarzmis p'erists'valebis monasteri) is a medieval Orthodox Christian monastery located at the village of Zarzma in Samtskhe-Javakheti region, southwest Georgia.

The Zarzma monastery is nested in the forested river valley of Kvabliani and its tributary Dzindze in the Adigeni municipality, 30 km west of the city of Akhaltsikhe. It is the complex of a series of buildings dominated by a domed church and a belfry, one of the largest in Georgia.[1]

  1. ^ (in Georgian) Zakaraia, Parmen (1981), ქართული ცენტრალურ-გუმბათოვანი არქიტექტურა XI-XVIII სს. (Georgian centrally-planned domed architecture of the 11th-18th centuries). Tbilisi: pp. 56-88.