Mugudzirkhva Church

Mugudzirkhva Church
მუგუძირხვის ეკლესია(in Georgian)
Mugudzirkhva Church ; მუგუძირხვის ეკლესია(in Georgian)
Religion
Affiliation	Georgian Orthodox
Province	Abkhazia
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	ruins
Location
Location	Mugudzirkhva, Gudauta Municipality, Abkhazia, Georgia
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Geographic coordinates	43°09′05″N 40°31′28″E / 43.15139°N 40.52444°ECoordinates: 43°09′05″N 40°31′28″E / 43.15139°N 40.52444°E
Architecture
Type	Church
Completed	Middle Ages

Mugudzyrkhva Church (Georgian: მუგუძირხვის ეკლესია) is a ruined medieval church near the village of Mugudzirkhva, Gudauta municipality, Abkhazia, an entity in the South Caucasus with a disputed political status. ^[2]

The ruins stand on a rocky hill in the Mchishta ravine. The ruined church was a hall-church design, its more or less preserved northern wall faced with limestone slabs. There are the remains of pilasters which once supported arches of the vault. The eastern wall with a protruding apse and the southern wall are almost completely ruined. Numerous shivers of roof tiles are scattered around the edifice.^[3]

References[]

^ Abkhazia is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Abkhazia and Georgia. The Republic of Abkhazia unilaterally declared independence on 23 July 1992, but Georgia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory and designates it as a territory occupied by Russia. Abkhazia has received formal recognition as an independent state from 7 out of 193 United Nations member states, 1 of which has subsequently withdrawn its recognition.
^ Church in Mugudzirkhva village Historical monuments of Abkhazia — Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia.
^ Voronov, Y. N. (1978). В мире архитектурных памятников Абхазии [In the world of architectural monuments of Abkhazia] (in Russian). Moscow: Iskusstvo. p. 70.

External links[]

Mugudzirkhva Church. Historical monuments of Abkhazia — Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia.

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[1] Abkhazia is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Abkhazia and Georgia. The Republic of Abkhazia unilaterally declared independence on 23 July 1992, but Georgia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory and designates it as a territory occupied by Russia. Abkhazia has received formal recognition as an independent state from 7 out of 193 United Nations member states, 1 of which has subsequently withdrawn its recognition.

[2] Church in Mugudzirkhva village Historical monuments of Abkhazia — Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia.

[3] Voronov, Y. N. (1978). В мире архитектурных памятников Абхазии [In the world of architectural monuments of Abkhazia] (in Russian). Moscow: Iskusstvo. p. 70.

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