Jigrashen Avetyats Church
Tbilisi, Georgia
No longer standing
Demolished or destroyed.
Jigrashen Avetyats Church was an Armenian Apostolic church in Tbilisi, Georgia, built in 1624 in the Armenian architectural tradition. The church was destroyed in 1937–38 on the orders of Lavrentiy Beria, as part of a broader campaign against religious structures that saw eleven churches razed in Tbilisi during that period.
Movement
- Built
- Type
- church building, destroyed building or structure
- Place
- Tbilisi, Georgia
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