Okrobageti

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Nino Bagrationi
Giorgi Bagrationi
Giorgi Bagrationi
Gia Shervashidze

The village of Koprule preserves large ruins of Okrobageti Church. Nothing but the east part, namely the sanctuary flanked by rectangular pastophoria, survives. On the east, the church abuts on a slope of a hill and is half buried in earth due to which the central window of the sanctuary appears round and is set high up on the wall. The pastophoria of refined elevated proportions have rectangular niches on the east and windows on side walls. There is a rectangular niche below the round window in the sanctuary.

The church is built of grey and brownish roughly cut stone.  Structural parts are made of neatly hewn basalt stone arranged in horizontal courses.

The building perimeter is retained. Its size allows to assume that the church was topped by a dome.

The surviving fragments and details assign the church to the 10th century.

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