old shuamta dzveli kakheti monastery the gombor mountains georgia

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Old Shuamta, Dzveli Shuamta, is a Kakheti monastery in the Gombor mountains, Georgia Royalty Free Stock Photo

Old Shuamta, Dzveli Shuamta, is a Kakheti monastery in the Gombor mountains, Georgia

Old Shuamta, Dzveli Shuamta, founded in indefinite antiquity and abandoned around the XVI century. Now not valid. Visually, it represents three ancient temples of the 5th-7th centuries in a clearing in the middle of a beautiful Telavi forest. The basilica was built in the 5th century. In those same years, a temple in the form of tetraconchs was built east of the basilica