Orthodox encyclopedia (№ 36 ) 09/08/2012 (2012)

Introductory speech by Priest Alexei Uminsky.

Icon of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Nina.

Believers in the Georgian church.

Uminsky walks through the vineyard and talks about the Orthodox faith in Georgia.

The place in Mtskheta where Saint Nina lived.

The nun Sidonia (Khukhunaishvili) tells.

Believers pray in the Georgian church.

An icon and a Georgian cross.

The interior of the Georgian church.

Says Archpriest Vissarion Menabde.

Panorama of the mountains.

View of the church in the mountains.

Jvari Monastery.

A priest and believers in the churches of the monastery.

The Cross of worship in the monastery.

Says Archpriest Vissarion Menabde.

One of the three venerated crosses of Saint Nina is located in the Zion Cathedral in Tbilisi.

Mtskheta Cathedral.

The priest Alexey Uminsky tells.

The cathedral from the inside.

The chiton of the Lord is kept under a bushel in the cathedral.

Abbess Feodora (Mahviladze) tells the story.

The resting place of Saint Nina in Bodbe.

The Convent of St.

Nina in Bodbe.

Iver Icon of the Mother of God.

A church candlestick in front of the Iver Icon of the Mother of God.

The priest Alexey Uminsky tells.

Gareji Monastery.

His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia tells.

Zaza Skhirtladze, an art critic, tells.

Stones and caves in Gareji.

The priest Alexey Uminsky tells about the tears of St.

David.

Pilgrims descend from the mountain on which the monastery stands.

Zaza Skhirtladze, an art critic, tells.

Alexey Uminsky comes out of the cell in the rock.

Georgian icons.

The Church of St.

Michael the Archangel in Tbilisi.

The rector of the temple himself paints the walls and paints icons.

Says Archpriest Alexander Galdava, rector of the Church of St.

Michael the Archangel in Tbilisi.

Athenian Zion Monastery.

Wall paintings in the monastery.

Metropolitan Andrey of Samtavia and Gori tells the story.

Unique frescoes in the Ubisi Monastery in Imereti.

Gelat Monastery near Kutaisi.

The paintings of Sien in the Gelati Monastery.

Levan Tkeshelashvili, Head of the Department of History of the Gelati Theological Academy, tells.

Painting of the arch of the temple in the Gelati monastery.

On the mural in the temple of the Holy King David the builder.

The grave of St.

David the Builder at the entrance to the Gelati Monastery.

Zaza Abashidze, a historian, tells.

A miniature showing the Muslim attack on Christian Georgia.

Priest Alexey Uminsky tells about the martyrs of Tbilisi.

Anchiskhati Cathedral.

Zaza Abashidze, a historian, tells.

A fresco depicting the Holy Queen Tamara.

Monument to Ilya Chavchavadze.

Portrait of Chavchavadze.

Ilya Chavchavadze Museum

Says Andro Bedukadze, director of the State house-Museum of Ilya Chavchavadze.

His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia tells.

The priest Alexey Uminsky tells.

The church in honor of St.

Elijah (Chavchavadze).

Children pray in the temple.

Narrated by Mari Khabazashvili.

His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia tells.

The joint liturgy of the priest of the Moscow Orthodox Church and the Georgian Orthodox Church.

Views of Tbilisi.

A donkey is driving a cart.

The winery.

The host opens a quevre with wine and fills a jug with dry white wine.

The priest Alexey Uminsky tells.

Georgian feast.

The final word of Alexey Uminsky.