Lekit church
| Lekit church | |
|---|---|
| Lekarti Monastery of Saint Nino | |
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 Ruins of the former monastery, in 2021 | |
| 41°29′36″N 46°51′23″E / 41.493333°N 46.856389°E | |
| Location | Lekit, Qakh District |
| Country | Azerbaijan |
| Denomination | Georgian Orthodox Church (former) |
| History | |
| Status | Monastery (former) |
| Dedication | Saint Nino |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Abandoned (ruinous state) |
The Lekart church (Georgian: ლექეთის წმინდა ნინოს ტაძარი; Azerbaijani: Ləkit məbədi), officially the Lekarti Monastery of Saint Nino, is a former Georgian Orthodox church, located 2 km (1.2 mi) north-east of the village of Lekit in the Qakh District of northwestern Azerbaijan, on the border with Georgia.
Overview
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]
Gallery
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Miniature model of the monastery in the historical museum of Qakh
See also
- Georgia–Azerbaijan relations
- Christianity in Azerbaijan
- Church of Kish
- Bana cathedral
- Katskhi Monastery
References
- ^ Adamia, Ilia (1979). Georgian National Architecture (in Georgian). Vol. 3. Tbilisi: Saingilo. pp. 124–125, IB335, M-605.
- ^ "Historical Monuments of the South Caucasus". maps.nekeri.net.
- ^ Janashvili, Mose (1895). History of Georgia (in Georgian) (Second ed.). Tbilisi: Zakaria Chichinadze. p. 205.