Everything about Anchiskhati Basilica totally explained
The
Anchiskhati Basilica of St Mary is the oldest surviving church in
Tbilisi,
Georgia. It dates from the sixth century and has largely preserved its original architecture.
According to the old Georgian annals, the church was built by the king
Dachi of Iberia (circa 522-534) who had made Tbilisi his capital. The name
Anchiskhati (for example, icon of Anchi) comes from the treasured icon of Savior created by the twelfth-century goldsmith
Beka Opizari at the Anchi Monastery in
Klarjeti, what is now northeast
Turkey.
The icon was moved in Tbilisi in 1664 so as not to be destroyed by the
Ottoman invasion, and was preserved at St Mary’s church for centuries (it is presently on display at the
Art Museum of Georgia).
There is a brick belfry near the Anchiskhati Church that was built by the catholicos Domenti in 1675. The look of the church was drastically changed in the 1870s. From 1958 to 1964 restoration works took place, which changed the view of the church back to the seventeenth-century version.
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