The Church of the Holy Spirit ( ka, სულიწმიდის კათოლიკური ეკლესია) is a
Roman Catholic
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church in the
Black Sea
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city of
Batumi
Batumi (; ka, ბათუმი ) is the second largest city of Georgia and the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, located on the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia's southwest. It is situated in a subtropical zone at the foot of t ...
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Georgia
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’s
autonomous republic of
Adjara. It was constructed in the late 1990s by the Georgian architects Oleg Pataridze and Giorgi Baghoshvili and consecrated in 2000.
[ ბათუმის სული წმიდის სახელობის კათოლიკური ეკლესია The Batumi Church of the Holy Spirit]
. Catholic Church in Georgia. Retrieved on May 10, 2009
The building replaced the earlier church which was confiscated by communists during the Soviet occupation but since 1989 serves as the
Georgian Orthodox Cathedral of the Mother of God.
References
Roman Catholic churches completed in 2000
Batumi
Batumi (; ka, ბათუმი ) is the second largest city of Georgia and the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, located on the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia's southwest. It is situated in a subtropical zone at the foot of t ...
Churches in Batumi
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings
Tourist attractions in Adjara
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