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Vardzia
Sign in to savethumb|right|Five monks still live in this mountain. Every morning at seven they ring the bell in the high arch.
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- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Country
- Georgia (country)
- Located in
- Samtskhe–Javakheti
- Elevation
- 1300
- Founded by
- Tamar of Georgia
- Image
- Vardzia.jpg
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- diocese
- Georgian Orthodox Church
- Commons category
- Vardzia
- native label
- ვარძია
- inception
- 1200-00-00
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- described at URL
- www.placemania.sk/svetova-zaujimavost/jaskynny-klastor-vardzia
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thumb|right|Five monks still live in this mountain. Every morning at seven they ring the bell in the high arch.
Vardzia ( ) is a cave monastery site in southern Georgia, excavated from the slopes of the Erusheti Mountain on the left bank of the Kura River, thirty kilometres from Aspindza. The main period of construction was the second half of the twelfth century. The caves stretch along the cliff for some five hundred meters and in up to nineteen tiers. The monastery was an important cultural center, a place of significant literary and artistic work.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vardzia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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