The Ardashen Church ( ka, არდაშენის ეკლესია) or simply as Jibistasi is a
Georgian Orthodox Church located in
Ardeşen
Ardeşen (Armenian: Արտաշեն/Artashen, Laz and Georgian: არტაშენი/Artasheni or არდაშენი/Ardasheni) is a town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, along the coast road from the city ...
,
Rize Province, northeastern
Turkey, on the border with
Georgia. The date of the church building can be traced to
Middle Ages that are adjacent to the so-called late-
Byzantine period. The architectural canon of the church is very well studied and it belongs to the eastern school of the mid and late Byzantine periods. According to the planning scheme, similar buildings are numerously found along the whole northern
Black Sea littoral.
[Church buildings in Eastern Chaneti (Ardashen, Pironit), 5th edition, pp. 132-143. by Guram Kipiani, Shota Mamuladze, Madona Mshvildadze (Tbilisi: Universal - Publishing house, 2013) ISSN 1987-5916]
References
Georgian Orthodox churches in Turkey
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