ST. GEVORG CHURCH COLLAPSED
Press service of the reported that yesterday, at midnight, the St. Gevorg Church of Mughni in Tbilisi built in 1356 collapsed. Besides, the main dome, the church had other three small domes at its three angles. In 1736, St. Gevorg Church was one of the seven churches of Tbilisi which was a part of the Haghpat diocese. In 1789, the church tower was built. In 1795, the church was plundered by the Iranians. In 1852-93, partial reconstructions were made in the church.
During the Soviet years, the church served as a museum of folk art, after a reserve and in 1990, it was definitely closed down being qualified as non-recoverable.
St. Gevorg of Mughni is one of the five churches for which St. Echmiadzin addressed a number of letters to return it to its dioceses to the Georgian government, patriarchy, international organizations. This issue was brought up by the press too. But all remained unanswered. Noteworthy, this is the second collapsed Armenian Church, the first one collapsed in 1989.
According to the , the whole responsibility bears the Georgian ministry of protection of culture and monuments. All this creates the impression that the Georgian government not paying enough attention to the preservation of churches, destroys them on purpose, lragir.am reports.
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