Lekarti Monastery of Saint Nino ლექეთის წმინდა ნინოს ტაძარი | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Georgian Orthodox Church |
Status | Not functioning |
Location | |
Location | Lekit, Qakh District, Azerbaijan |
Geographic coordinates | 41°29′36″N 46°51′23″E / 41.493333°N 46.856389°E |
The Lekarti church of St Nino (Georgian: ლექეთის წმინდა ნინოს ტაძარი; Azerbaijani: Ləkit məbədi) is a Georgian Orthodox Church located 2 km north-east of the village of Lekit of Qakh District, northwestern Azerbaijan, on the border with Georgia. The village's oldest name "Lekarti" (Georgian: ლექართი) is of Georgian origins and means "the place of Georgians". Among the Dagestani Lezgins the village is also known as "Georgians' village".[1][2] In written historic courses which have been saved up to the present, the village has been mentioned for the first time in a Georgian Gospel's Anderdzi (postscript), written in 1300-1310, during the reign of king George V the Brilliant of Georgia. It is said that catholicos of Georgia Ekvtime III visited Lekarti Saint Nino church, then part of the Kak-Eliseni district of the Kakheti province of Kingdom of Georgia.[3]
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See also
References
- ^ Adamia, Ilia, "Georgian National Architecture", book 3, Saingilo, Tbilisi, 1979, p.p. 124-125; IB335, M-605 (in Georgian)
- ^ "Historical Monuments of the South Caucasus". maps.nekeri.net.
- ^ Janashvili, Mose, "History of Georgia", Second edition by Zakaria Chichinadze, Tbilisi, 1895, p. 205, [1] (in Georgian)