Chaisi

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Nino Bagrationi
Giorgi Bagrationi
Giorgi Bagrationi
Gia Shervashidze

Originally designed as a hall-type church, the building is now used as a mosque and preserves in a good physical shape. It is built of neatly-hewn square stone, predominantly of grey basalt. The masonry preserves few horizontal stone courses. The building has a gable roof covered with hewn tiles. The entrance to the church is from the north. To the original windows each being located in the east, south and west respectively were added three wide windows following the conversion of the church into a mosque (two in the south and one in west).

The longitudinal walls of the hall are divided into three sections by pilasters. The vault is supported by arches resting upon pilasters. In its north-east section, the apse has two niches one of which is small and right-ankled and another is large and arcuated.

The church must have been built in the 14th-15th century.

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