Zemo Krikhi church

Zemo Krikhi church of the Archangel
ზემო კრიხის მთავარანგელოზის ეკლესია
Zemo Krikhi. Donor frescoes on north wall.
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42°29′49″N 43°11′37″E / 42.496856°N 43.193605°E / 42.496856; 43.193605 (Zemo Krikhi)
LocationZemo Krikhi, Ambrolauri Municipality,
Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, Georgia
TypeHall church
Donor figure wearing sharbush, qaba and tiraz. Church of the Archangels, Zemo-Krikhi, Racha, northern Georgia. 11th century, Inv. No. 03086-75.[1]

The Zemo Krikhi church of the Archangel (Georgian: ზემო კრიხის მთავარანგელოზის ეკლესია, romanized: zemo k'rikhis mtavarangelozis ek'lesia) is a 10th–11th-century church in western Georgia, in the highland Ambrolauri Municipality, part of the historical and cultural region of Racha. It is a hall church with a projecting apse, adorned with stone carvings, frescoes, and medieval Georgian inscriptions. The church was almost completely destroyed in the Racha earthquake of 1991 and rebuilt in 2009. It is inscribed on the list of the Immovable Cultural Monuments of National Significance.[2]

  1. ^ Flood, Finbarr Barry (2017). A Turk in the Dukhang? Comparative Perspectives on Elite Dress in Medieval Ladakh and the Caucasus. Austrian Academy of Science. p. 253, Fig. 20.
  2. ^ "List of Immovable Cultural Monuments" (PDF) (in Georgian). National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia. Retrieved 25 July 2019.