Nino Bagrationi Giorgi Bagrationi	Giorgi Bagrationi Gia Shervashidze

There used to be a big laura on this site. Of six churches that stood there in the time of E. Takaishvili, only three survive.  Two of them are single-naved and another is referred to as a “head church“ by Takaishvili.

Designed as a basilica, the main church is fairly large and has a rectangular apse projecting in the east. From the east it stands on a sub-structure provided with large slabs of stone serving as buttresses. Mortar  filling is visible between the middle-size stone courses of masonry. The east facade is built of larger and more neatly hewn stone. On plan itis more similar to a three-church basilica: the apse is deep and horseshoe-shaped, slightly formless, with one window. A fragment of a tall sanctuary survives. The analysis of the planning, construciton quality and archaic forms of the building allow to assign the church to the 8th-9th century. The paintings and inscriptions seen by Takaishvili are no more present.

Below the large church, on the top of a cliff survive ruins of a miniature hall-type church. The road leading to the site isalso destroyed.

Slightly farther south from the large church, stands a hall-type church twhich preserves in a better state. It is perched on the edge of the cliff to the north-east,  due to which it is impossible to walk around it. This explains the fact that the church has not lost completely its facing masonry. Itis bulit of smoothly polished yellowish stone arranged in straight courses. The chrurch has one entrance in the south and one window in the east. The west and north blind walls have neither a pilaster nor an arch to support the vault. The facing masonry is of smoothly polished stone. The chancel is embellished with a sequence of grey and yellow stones. The window in the sanctuary is flanked by niches.

Ruins of one more spacious and oblong building survives on the site of the monastery. It is most probable that the building was either a residence or a monastic sructure having a different funciton.