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Bagrati Cathedral

c. 1003 · 11th century

Bagrati Cathedral is an eleventh-century cathedral in Kutaisi, western Georgia, built under Bagrat III, the first king of united Georgia, and completed in the early 1000s. It was a masterpiece of medieval Georgian architecture until an explosion during the Ottoman invasion of 1692 ruined it. Controversially restored in 2012, it is a symbol of Georgian unity.

Bagrati Cathedral
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Bagrati Cathedral. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/bagrati-cathedral
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