The church at Urbnisi is an extremely large C6th basilica. Urbnisi had one of the earliest Christian communities in Georgia which could have been linked to the fact that the town also had a significant Jewish population in antiquity.
Creator
Emma Loosley
Date of Visit
7th July 2013
Contributor
Emma Loosley
Rights
Metadata and all media released under Creative Commons
unless otherwise indicated
Type
Architecture
Tags
Architecture, C6th, Church, Georgia, Jew, St. Nino, Urbnisi
Collection
The Early Christian Architecture of Georgia
Citation
Emma Loosley, “Urbnisi,” Architecture and Asceticism, accessed April 19, 2024, https://architectureandasceticism.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/123.