The Eredvi church of St. George is located in the village of Eredvi in the Little Liakhvi valley, 5 km northwest of the city of Tskhinvali. The village, whose recorded history goes back to the 14th century, was part of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast in Soviet Georgia, remained under the Georgian control after the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War, and was overran by the Russian and South Ossetian forces in the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. During the August 2008 hostilities, the curtain wall of the Eredvi church was partially damaged. According to the United States Department of State's International Religious Freedom Report for 2014, the South Ossetian authorities did not permit services in the Georgian Orthodox churches, such as Eredvi. In 2017, the largely ruined village Eredvi, deprived of its ethnic Georgian population, was completely demolished by the South Ossetian authorities with the Russian aid. The church was reported standing untouched by the Tskhinvali-based South Ossetian media and a local video blogger.