Location: Georgia, the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Gagra municipality, settlement of Gantiadi.

Construction inside the complex:   the church.

Historical-Architectural description: Experts of the respective field have suggested that it is the church, which was built by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I- (527-565) for Abazg tribes when they got Christianized. In the ruins of the Basilica was found a fragment of the tombstone with the Greek uncial inscription. It seems most likely that the inscription belonged to the tomb of a clerical or secular dignitary of Abkhazia. Name of the buried is lost. The inscription is dated back to the 6th c.

The church is a three-nave basilica, built of medium-size  limestone  Quadra of regular shape and flat brick of varied sizes.

Current condition: The territory is currently occupied by Russia, because of which it is impossible to study and to conduct the respective works. The church is in a heavy physical condition.  But we have information that, it needs urgent conservation and restoration works.

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