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    The Metekhi church of the Nativity of the Mother of God (Georgian: მეტეხის ღვთისმშობლის შობის ტაძარი, romanized: met'ekhis ghvtismshoblis shobis t'adzari)...
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    overlooks the Mtkvari river. The neighborhood is home to the eponymous Metekhi Church of Assumption. The district was one of the earliest inhabited areas...
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    Avlabari (section Churches)
    The Metekhi Church - the oldest church in Avlabari Church of the Red Gospel, Tbilisi, a ruined 18th century Armenian Apostolic Church Ejmiatsin Church, Tbilisi...
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    relocated in the center of the old city on the site of the 13th-century Metekhi church. In 1945, following a special agreement between the Soviet and French...
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    district houses a bulk of the tourist attractions in Tbilisi, including churches, museums, sulphur bathhouses, and peculiar wooden houses with open, carved...
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    Saint Nino (left) and Saint George (right) depicted on a fresco at the Metekhi Church. Nino is the most common feminine name in Georgia, as she converted...
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    2010. The bridge stretches over Kura River providing a view of the Metekhi Church, statue of the city's founder Vakhtang Gorgasali, and the Narikala Fortress...
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    1629. Upon returning in Georgia, he was ordained as a senior priest at Metekhi Church, Tbilisi, 1629-1632. In 1632, he was invited by the Mingrelian prince...
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    chief of Georgia, Lavrentiy Beria, intended to destroy the medieval Metekhi church in Tbilisi, but met stubborn opposition from a group of Georgian intellectuals...
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    his name, and a 1967 monument by the sculptor Elguja Amashukeli tops the Metekhi cliff. A legend has it that when King Vakhtang was in the forest, his falcon...
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