Name: Dzveli Shuamta Monastery
Address: Old Shuamta Monastery Road, Georgia, GE

Dzveli Shuamta Monastery is a church, located at Old Shuamta Monastery Road, Georgia. Visit their website www.heritagesites.ge for more detailed information.

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Old Shuamta Monastery Road

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Added by Jopie, at 03 July 2014

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Levani Shikhiashvili

28 April 2018

Beautiful
David Tevzadze

19 December 2017

OLD AND NEW SHUAMTA MONASTERIES
Two of the most important and most beautiful architectural monuments of Kakheti are the Dzveli (‘Old’) and Akhali (‘New’) Shuamta Monasteries. Both of them stand in a forest of deciduous trees which makes them look even more fascinating.

The architectural ensemble Dzveli Suamta is situated 7km of Telavi. Its consists of a 5th century basilica, one of the most curious examples of Christian Georgian architecture; a 17th century domed church of a type close to the Mtskheta Jvari Church but of a smaller size (with a smaller depth of the apses; an increased significance of the dome drum and a more pronounced design of the tromps); a small 7th century domed church which is also of a cross design in plan, but without corner rooms and with equal axes. The church was built of cobblestones; the corner was faced with hewn stones. In the 16th century Zveli Shuamta Monastery was abandoned. Not far from it a new, Akhali Shuamta Monastery was built by Tinatin Gurieli, the wife of King Levan II (1520-1574). The Church had a dome and was designed in the form of a cross in plan. It was built of brick; the inner walls were decorated with paintings and some of the portraits of the founders have been preserved. The Church was restored by Irakli II. The complex includes also a bell-tower and some minor buildings. A Chavchavadze was buried here.
Gumashvili Melxi

15 April 2017

შუამთის მონასტერი
Cam Graves

22 March 2017

Lovely buildings from the outside and plain and boring inside, just like a lot of these. We didn't stay long as it was snowing.
Kakhi Kuloshvili

18 August 2016

Dzveli Shuamta ("Old Shuamta" in English), - a complex made up of three churches of different periods - 6th, 7th and 8th centuries in a highland forest near the town of Telavi in Kakheti.
From Tbilisi, 82 km.
Giorgi Chkonia

25 June 2016

OLD SHUAMTA
Peter Merabishvili

15 June 2016

I didn't find it interesting
Vitali B

10 July 2014

Stopped by. Nothing spesial.