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GEORGIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHIRCH

 

 

Many Georgians proudly  define themselves as one of the oldest “Christian nations” of the world.

Ancient chronicles confirm that Christian parishes existed in Georgia as early as in the 1st century A.D.

Since the middle of the 4th century, Christianity became official religion of Georgian kingdom of Cartlia.

 

http://www.geo.orthodoxy.ru/

The above link will take you to one of the best sites of Georgian Orthidix Church. It contains extremely interesting information about its history, doctrine and prayers. It will introduce you to Georgian icons and church music. Unfortunately, the above site is in Russian, so if you do not know that language you will not be able to read the texts.

 

However you still can see Georgian icons if you go here:               http://www.geo.orthodoxy.ru/icons1.htm

                                                                                                            http://www.geo.orthodoxy.ru/icons2.htm

                                                                                                            http://www.geo.orthodoxy.ru/icons4.htm

 

                                                                                    or here:           http://www.iconpainter.ge/

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To see the gallery of Georgian crosses you can go here:               http://www.geo.orthodoxy.ru/cross.htm

 

To see the unique Georgian engravings you can go here:              http://www.geo.orthodoxy.ru/metal1.htm

                                                                                                            http://www.geo.orthodoxy.ru/metal2.htm

                                                                                                            http://www.geo.orthodoxy.ru/metal3.htm

 

Georgia. Mtskheta.

To see the pictures of ancient Georgian       http://extreme.k2.omsknet.ru/eng/Caucasus/georgia/georgia3.htm

Christian   temples you can go here:            http://extreme.k2.omsknet.ru/eng/Caucasus/georgia/georgia4.htm

 

And here you can listen to audio files:                                              http://www.geo.orthodoxy.ru/music1.htm

                                                                                                            http://www.geo.orthodoxy.ru/music2.htm

 

There is another site devoted to Georgian Orthodox Church at  http://www.angelfire.com/ga/Georgian/index2.html

It is also quite interesting and it is in English

 

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