Name: Zarzma Monastery
Address: Zarzma Monastery Road, Zarzma, Georgia, GE
Telephone: +995 595 95 78 88

Zarzma Monastery is a church, located at Zarzma Monastery Road, Zarzma, Georgia. They can be contacted via phone at +995 595 95 78 88, visit their website www.zarzma.ge for more detailed information.

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Zarzma Monastery Road, Zarzma

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Anonymous

08 April 2018

Zarzmar midevil monastary located in the same named village is worth the narrow, but short trip up the mountain road. The enterior grounds are well maintained, beautiful. Many ancient relics, staties and iconary. No one greets you or guides you, thus you are not told the history and there are no signs in English
Anonymous

18 March 2018

Excellent place
Anonymous

01 March 2018

Religious and historical place, with beautiful priests and religious persons, praying, singing and working there.
Anonymous

07 December 2017

Great place
Anonymous

12 July 2017

Wonderful place
Anonymous

05 April 2017

The Zarzma Monastery of Transfiguration (Georgian: ზარზმის მონასტერი, zarzmis p'erists'valebis monasteri) is a medieval Orthodox Christian monastery located at the village of Zarzma in Samtskhe-Javakheti region, southwest Georgia.

The Zarzma monastery is nested in the forested river valley of Kvabliani in the Adigeni municipality, 30 km west of the city of Akhaltsikhe. It is the complex of a series of buildings dominated by a domed church and a belfry, one of the largest in Georgia.[1]

The earliest church on the site was probably built in the 8th century, by the monk Serapion whose life is related in the hagiographic novel by Basil of Zarzma. According to his source, the great nobleman Giorgi Chorchaneli made significant donation – including villages and estates – to the monastery. The extant edifice dates from the early years of the 14th century, however. Its construction was sponsored by Beka I, Prince of Samtskhe and Lord High Mandator of Georgia of the Jaqeli family. What has survived from the earlier monastery is the late 10th-century Georgian inscription inserted in the chapel's entrance arch. The inscription reports the military aid rendered by Georgian nobles to the Byzantine emperor Basil II against the rebellious general Bardas Sclerus in 979.[2] In 1544, the new patrons of the monastery – the Khursidze family – refurnished the monastery.

The façades of the church are richly decorated and the interior is frescoed. Apart from the religious cycles of the murals there are a series of portraits of the 14th-century Jaqeli family as well as of the historical figures of the 16th century. After the Ottoman conquest of the area later in the 16th century, the monastery was abandoned and lay in disrepair until the early 20th century, when it was reconstructed, but some of the unique characteristics of the design were lost in the process. [1]

Currently, the monastery is functional and houses a community of Georgian monks. It is also the site of pilgrimage and tourism.

A smaller replica of the Zarzma church, known as Akhali Zarzma ("New Zarzma") is located in the same municipality, near Abastumani. It was commissioned by Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, a member of the Russian imperial family, from the Tbilisi-based architect Otto Jacob Simons who built it between 1899 and 1902, marrying a medieval Georgian design with the contemporaneous architectural forms. Its interior was frescoed by the Russian painter Mikhail Nesterov.
Anonymous

25 November 2016

Great place!
Anonymous

01 June 2016

Marvelous!
Anonymous

31 May 2016

Nice
Anonymous

28 October 2012

The part of the history of Georgia