Timotessubani Monastery
The Timotessubani Monastery ( Georgian ტიმოთესუბანი , ტიმოთესუბნის მონასტერი) is a medieval Georgian Orthodox monastery in the Georgian region of Samtskhe-Javakheti , in the municipality of Borjomi , in the village of Timotessubani .
The complex consists of a series of several buildings that were built between the 11th and 18th centuries. Of these, the main church of the monastery is the largest and particularly important; it was built in the so-called "golden age" of the Georgian kingdom in the reign of Queen Tamar (1184-1213). In a contemporary inscription, the Georgian nobleman Shalva of Akhaltsikhe is named as the patron of the church.
The church was built of pink stone. The plan of the church has a cross-in-square floor plan and three apses in the east side. The dome rests on two freestanding columns and the corner of the altar. Later two portals were added to the south and west.
The interior was decorated with frescoes at the latest in the 1220s. Timotessubani murals are known for their vividness and the complexity of the iconographic program. These frescoes were cleaned and researched by E. Priwalowa and her colleagues in the 1970s.
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- ^ Eastmond, Antony (1998), Royal Imagery in Medieval Georgia , p. 211. Penn State Press, ISBN 0271016280 .
- ^ Preservation of Medieval Monuments: the Church of the Virgin in Timotesubani . The Georgian Arts & Culture Center , April 2007
Coordinates: 41 ° 48 ′ 38.3 " N , 43 ° 31 ′ 5.6" E