The Nekresi monastery, mortuary chapel and the bishop`s palace , Georgia cover photo - 170216112

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Photo title: The Nekresi monastery, mortuary chapel and the bishop`s palace , Georgia
Author: Blossfeldia

Cover photo description:
The bishop`s palace is a two-storey building, standing a few metres southwest of the church of the Dormition. The windows on both floors have sharply defined horseshoe-shaped arches, an architectural element not in use in Georgia after the 9thâ€“10th century. The mortuary chapel is the oldest extant structure in the Nekresi monastery complex, with the area of four square metres. A long-established belief that it was a proto-basilica built on the place of a former Zoroastrian temple in the late 4th centuryâ€”and, thus, one of the oldest Christian churches in Georgiaâ€”was disproved the 2008â€“2009 archaeological study which found no evidence of pre-Christian occupation at the site and redated the structure to the 6th century.

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