Location:  Georgia, the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Gudauta municipality, village of Likhni.

Construction inside  the complex: the domed church.

Historical-architectural description: The cross domed construction of the 10^th century is erected in the middle of the village Likhni. It is constructed with the straight rows of well refined ashlar stone.  Small sized dome is based on four freely standing piers. In the west part is constructed upper gallery. The facades are simple, the surfaces are distributed with only window apertures. From the eastern part are turning the three protruded apses. The architecture and painting of Likhni church represents the main source about the church itself. There are preserved the paintings sign of the 10^th-11^th centuries, also paintings of the 14^th century in Likhni Church, which is specified with neat coloring, dynamism and expressiveness of the several elongated figures.  Famous French Kartvelologist, Mari Brose was the first to record antiquities of the Likhni church; he had copied several Georgian inscriptions from the church walls, among them, inscription of 1066 narrating about the apparition of a comet. The same historic event is also mentioned in the chronicle of the Kiev princedom and one of the Chinese chronicles.

Before, Russian-Georgian war  Likhni church was rich with epigraphic monuments with over 17 murals as well as Biblical scenes, the Georgian and Greek explanatory inscriptions about Saints in Georgian asomtavruli and mkhedruli (secular) scripts, which mention high ranking secular persons: kings of the united Georgian kingdom – Bagrat IV, George II and the representatives of the clergy.

Current condition:  The territory is currently occupied by Russia, on account of which it is impossible to study  and to conduct the necessary works.  But we have information that,  Likhni church construction and the painting is in quite a hard condition. In 2010 de-facto authority of Abkhazia started the conservation works, outside the church, installed the temporary covering was installed. The works were held without the professional restorers, because of which there is a great threat of erasing the church authenticity and its historical sign.

Likhni church has been given the status of national importance monument.