page_title: Nekresi monastery
section_title: Church of the Archangel
hierarchical_section_title: Nekresi monastery / Layout / Church of the Archangel
caption_attribution_description: ქართული: ნეკრესის გუმბათიანი ეკლესია This is a photo of a monument in Georgia identified by the ID 1431
context_page_description: The Nekresi monastery is a Georgian Orthodox monastery in the eastern Georgian region of Kakheti, founded in the 6th century. Perched on one of the easternmost spurs of the Greater Caucasus crest, the monastery is part of the larger historic site of Nekresi, once a flourishing town of the Late Antiquity. In medieval Georgian literary tradition, beginnings of monasticism at Nekresi is associated with the 6th-century monk Abibos, known for Christian proselytizing and combating Zoroastrianism. The monastery was closed down shortly after the Imperial Russian takeover of the Georgian church in 1811. After a hiatus of nearly two centuries, the monastery became functional again in 2000.
  The Nekresi monastery tops a wooded hillock known as Nazvrevi Gora in the eastern portion of the Nekresi site, some 3.7 km east as the crow flies from the modern village of Shilda, Qvareli Municipality.
context_section_description: The church of the Archangel is an 8th–9th-century building situated in the south-western portion of the Nekresi monastery complex. Built of rubble with the additional use of limestone slabs, it is a centrally-planned church, with transitional features of a domed three-church basilica. It has two apsed side aisles to the north and south of the central nave. The latter terminates in a pentagonal sanctuary apse which is pierced by a single window. A window in the north aisle is sealed. The south aisle and the narthex in the west both are open to the exterior through two-arched arcades. Transition from the central square to the circle of the dome is effected by two squinchs to the west and proto-pendentives to the east. The drum of the dome has windows to the east, south and west. The interior of the central part of the church bears now barely discernable traces of frescoes. About 25 metres northeast of the church, on a terraced slope, a number of monks' cells have been uncovered.
caption: Church of the Archangel.
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